Lidia Bastianich Quotes

I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.

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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.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Mistake

• I'm curvy.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Curvy

• I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thought

• A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Policy
  • Temporary

• So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Different
  • Fall

• I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Myself
  • Cool
  • Body

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Want

• You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.

  

  Hal Roach
  • People
  • You
  • Laugh

• It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Hard

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Change
  • Poetry

• A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Important
  • Support
  • Health

• I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• 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!

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Truth
  • Way
  • Feel

• Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Single
  • Childhood
  • Child

• 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.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Career
  • House
  • Words

• I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Me
  • Know
  • Stage

• Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination.

  

  Ed Foreman
  • Imagination
  • Worry
  • Misuse

• A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Friend
  • Pretext

• You kind of figure out what you're doing as you go along.

  

  Andy Gill
  • Doing
  • Figure Out
  • Along

• Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun.

  

  Joe Jonas DNCE
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.

  

  Lidia Bastianich