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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	How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.   
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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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	Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.   
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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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	Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.   
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	Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.   
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	Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.   
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	I can be kind of razor sharp in my disapproval.   
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	You can freeze a nice sponge cake and then have a strawberry shortcake any time.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					