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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I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.
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My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
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Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Love? he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it.
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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.
