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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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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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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It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
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I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us and new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about.
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What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
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If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.
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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.
