Lidia Bastianich Quotes

Chemistry was my college interest. Cooking is about chemistry.

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• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

  

  Karen O
  • Years
  • Loved
  • Myth

• Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Game
  • Philosophy
  • Meaning

• For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Body

• One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Author
  • Coffee

• If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Funny
  • Relationship
  • Sexy

• Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • You
  • Athlete
  • Chances

• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Kind

• My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Me
  • Myself

• You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Different
  • Words
  • Same

• A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Me
  • Strength
  • Interested

• I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • You
  • Know
  • Feelings

• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • House
  • Small
  • Air

• Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Heart
  • May
  • House

• I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Man
  • Boss
  • Treat

• The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Violence

• Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Thanksgiving

• Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Up
  • Character
  • Age

• My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Bad
  • Health
  • Cooking

• He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Time
  • Athlete
  • Just

• So long as you've got one good eye, the other one is just back-up.

  

  Douglas Slocombe
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• Chemistry was my college interest. Cooking is about chemistry.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • College
  • Cooking