Mario Batali Quotes
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
Quotes to Explore
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.
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You need the willingness to fail all the time.
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I would say the Go-Go's are pretty iconic but don't know if I'd refer to myself like that.
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Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.
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After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.
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The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
