Lidia Bastianich Quotes
There's a great need to convene at the table with family and friends. People are feeling it and wanting it. For me to be a minor player in helping with that, it makes me so happy.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.
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A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.
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When you're in your twenties, you're made of expectations, and when they're shattered, you don't know how to behave. The fact is if you react really outraged, you fear that you'll get dropped and feel even more terrible. But there's only a certain amount you can put up with before you become obnoxious in your own eyes, right?
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My hair is God's aura. Everything went up when I got home from the penitentiary. One night I went to lie down next to my wife, and my hair started popping and uncurling all on its own - ping, ping, ping, ping! I knew that it was God telling me to stay on the righteous path so he could one day pull me up to be there with him.
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'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.
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There's a great need to convene at the table with family and friends. People are feeling it and wanting it. For me to be a minor player in helping with that, it makes me so happy.
