Lidia Bastianich Quotes
I am the perfect example that if you give somebody a chance, especially here in the United States, one can find the way.

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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
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One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.
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You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the day before - whether you had a good day or bad day - dictate the day you have that certain day.
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As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.
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Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
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I am the perfect example that if you give somebody a chance, especially here in the United States, one can find the way.