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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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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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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People assume that because I'm a celebrity and have this platform that I always know what I'm talking about. I guess I don't always know what I'm talking about because I'm a kid who's trying to figure it out amid all the chaos of the world at large, and also the chaos of having this voice and responsibility. At the same time, this voice and responsibility has been the biggest blessing because I'm able to create change just by posting something on Instagram. That's really amazing. I can't believe that I get to have that megaphone and I get to decide how to use it.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.
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It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
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The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline.
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You can freeze a nice sponge cake and then have a strawberry shortcake any time.
