Buddy Valastro Quotes
I would love to sit at home all day and play with my kids. It's my favorite thing to do in my time off.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
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Rod has always been like my third child and my most demanding boy out of the three.
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When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.
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If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.
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But just like I've always said when people complain about tee times, 'I just want a tee time. Just give me one so I can play.'
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I would love to sit at home all day and play with my kids. It's my favorite thing to do in my time off.
