Buddy Valastro Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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I've always liked SyFy.
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Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.
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I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.
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I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
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My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
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At the record company meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'
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"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is.' That's the problem with the deficit.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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I load on proteins, veggies, fruits and nuts and never took support of supplements.
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I get along with everybody.
