Dennis Farina Quotes
My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.
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The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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My mother taught me to read.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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Food can change anything.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.
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It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.
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A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.
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In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.
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When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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I kind of work on an airplane. The Burger King brand headquarters is in Miami. The Tim's headquarters and our head office is in Toronto. And we have international offices for the brands in Switzerland and Singapore, so I kind of bop back and forth around all the offices. And I try to spend most of my time visiting our restaurant owners.
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My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.
