Lidia Bastianich Quotes
That's the beauty of risotto. You can make it any flavor you want. It's a great carrier.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I look formidable.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
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When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.
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I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
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That's the beauty of risotto. You can make it any flavor you want. It's a great carrier.
