Lidia Bastianich Quotes
Food is kind of my entry card into everything. Food kind of opens the doors... because food is peace. It's good; it's positive.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
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I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far enough.
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I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.
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A lot of time, you play well and you do good work, but you are not on a good team, so it really doesn't mean anything.
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Food is kind of my entry card into everything. Food kind of opens the doors... because food is peace. It's good; it's positive.
