Lidia Bastianich Quotes
What I continuously remember is when I was a child in the courtyard with my grandmother and we milked the goat and we made the ricotta. The still-warm ricotta from our goat, on top of a piece of bread, and we used to sprinkle just a little bit of honey or sugar on it. That flavor, that stays in my memory.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.
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The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.
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What I continuously remember is when I was a child in the courtyard with my grandmother and we milked the goat and we made the ricotta. The still-warm ricotta from our goat, on top of a piece of bread, and we used to sprinkle just a little bit of honey or sugar on it. That flavor, that stays in my memory.
