Lidia Bastianich Quotes
My evolution came not as a plan but as opportunities came. People offer them when they see you're doing something well. It's up to you to recognize them, take them, and then dedicate yourself to them.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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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 never pursued being 'famous.'
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.
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I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesn't go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.
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I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.
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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.
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Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
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My evolution came not as a plan but as opportunities came. People offer them when they see you're doing something well. It's up to you to recognize them, take them, and then dedicate yourself to them.
