Mario Batali Quotes
Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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It's hard being a girl. There are a lot of body image issues that come up and I think the best thing we can do for our kids is lead by example.
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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
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They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.
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I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working.
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Sometimes I write it down, sometimes I freestyle. I get lines coming to me randomly throughout the day and I'll jot it down and build on that. If I get a line that's about love, it starts up a whole love verse... And if a beat speaks to me, it's like I already know what to write.
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Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
