Lidia Bastianich Quotes
I'm not an entertainer - that's not what I do. I want to teach viewers; I want to show them. I want to share my culture.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Applied knowledge in the Renaissance had to take the form of translation of the auditory into visual terms, of the plastic into retinal form. (p. 180)
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Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
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One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to believe in the work they do. You're told to second-guess yourself all the time. That's where I think a little hostility and arrogance can save you. And I've never been lacking for either.
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One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
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I'm not an entertainer - that's not what I do. I want to teach viewers; I want to show them. I want to share my culture.
