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 mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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I need a woman who is secure and loves herself first. Then she can share that love and light with me.
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Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.
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Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.
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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.
