Lidia Bastianich Quotes
The food of a country is my story. It is a small story, but people relate so much to it. I want to share that, but also the idea of bringing people and family together.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.
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The food of a country is my story. It is a small story, but people relate so much to it. I want to share that, but also the idea of bringing people and family together.
