Mario Batali Quotes
I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.
Quotes to Explore
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
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If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.
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Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.
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I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.
