Lidia Bastianich Quotes
I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.
Quotes to Explore
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I'm curvy.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.
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You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.
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I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.
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The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
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At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.
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The majority of my work is about preparation.
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When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
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I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.
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There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.
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We have to think big. We have to imagine big, and that's part of the problem. We're letting other people imagine and lead us down what paths they want to take us. Sometimes they're very limited in the way their ideas are constructed. We need to imagine much more broadly. That's the work of a writer, and more writers should look at it.
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I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.
