Lidia Bastianich Quotes
When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and a man.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.
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I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.
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If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.
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My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.
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The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.
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For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible Hulk' for a third time? I don't get it.
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Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.
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When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and a man.
