Lidia Bastianich Quotes
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina,' that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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All this wealth excludes but one evil,-poverty.
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Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better citizens than ourselves? We are not doing that at present. The Russians are. That is my last word. Think over it.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.
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If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals...
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Nature recharges me.
