Mario Batali Quotes

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

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• I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Dream

• There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

  

  Iman
  • Want
  • Create
  • Follow

• I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • Attention
  • Myself

• Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Learning

• Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Military

• I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Band

• As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • May

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Time
  • Trying
  • School

• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Like
  • Animal
  • Name

• I've always been interested in making movies.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Interested

• I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Feel

• A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

  Gail Devers
  • Vision
  • Name
  • Race

• Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Never
  • Mine

• I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • You
  • Know
  • Feelings

• Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Person

• Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Age
  • Freedom

• My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Father

• Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • America
  • Food
  • Creative

• People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Hand
  • Moment
  • Blow

• When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.

  

  Ken Jeong
  • Work
  • Night
  • Comedy

• My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Food