Mario Batali Quotes
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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I ain't got no right to judge someone.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.
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It was a great feeling (to sit out) because I didn't feel good at all, ... I was telling Coach when I was getting ready to go back in that I wasn't feeling that well and he just told me to come back, and fortunately everything worked out fine. I just didn't feel good. I was dizzy out there the whole game. Once I stopped playing at halftime and came back in, I just never felt right. I think I'm coming down with something.
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Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
