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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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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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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And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.
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I personally like to do independent films.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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It's so important for us to be able to talk about body positivity and accepting yourself and loving yourself because we've all been in a place where we're insecure.
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No movement calls migrant workers oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.
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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.