Mario Batali Quotes
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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It was a really great time for her. She was single and dating and beautiful in New York in the '60s ... You don't have to be completely consumed or subsumed by the tragedy.
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I think that 'The Sopranos' uses music incredibly well.
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With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.
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Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
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I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.
