Lidia Bastianich Quotes

My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.

Lidia Bastianich

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• I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

  

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• We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

  

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• Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

  

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• I love my sleep.

  

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• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

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• Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

  

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• I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

  

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• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  

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• There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

  

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• College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

  

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• When you're out on the road touring and touring and then making records, you're just constantly looking forward, constantly working. You don't really stop to look at where you are or where you've been.

  

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• My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Great
  • American
  • Success