Lidia Bastianich Quotes
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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People forget at the time that 'The Simpsons' started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said 'hell' and 'damn' in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.
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Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.
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Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
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You can freeze a nice sponge cake and then have a strawberry shortcake any time.
