Quote by Mario Batali
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profou

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. – Mario Batali

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Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all. – Mario Batali

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Beauty
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I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, Howd you like to be on TV? Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a Ready, Set, Cook with Emeril Lagasse, I believe. – Mario Batali

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Food
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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. Im looking for something different. A lot of chefs cookbooks are food as its done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down. – Mario Batali

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You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work. – Tori Spelling

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. – George Bernard Shaw

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You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, its not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty. – John le Carre

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Family

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I dont know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh. – Jenny McCarthy

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Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. – Mark Twain

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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. – Gertrude Stein

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Well, Ill tell you, I dont know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like. – Joan Jett

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