Joe Bastianich Quotes
I believe that 'MasterChef' brings something more to the table, so to speak, than simply being another reality food TV show. My hope is that it will inspire America to get more involved in the food they eat, how it is prepared.
 
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	There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.   
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	Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.   
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	In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.   
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	San Francisco, coolest place ever.   
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	Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.   
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	Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.   
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	I crave attention and adventure.   
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	My head was always in books.   
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	We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.   
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	The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.   
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	I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.   
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	The truth is, I'm not body confident.   
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	We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.   
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	I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'   
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	I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!   
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	English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.   
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	I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.   
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	I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.   
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	I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.   
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	We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce.   
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	How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.   
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	When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.   
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	What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.   
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	I believe that 'MasterChef' brings something more to the table, so to speak, than simply being another reality food TV show. My hope is that it will inspire America to get more involved in the food they eat, how it is prepared.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					