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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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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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 love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.
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There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
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With the depth of the women's game, the entertainment it gives, and the work we put into it, I think equal pay is right.
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When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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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.
