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“The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.”

Long Real Differences Half Thirds Size Lists Restaurants Ingredients Cookbook

Author:Mario Batali

“There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.”

Long Made Effort Technology Sea Lists Made It Precise Deep Sea

Author:Robert Ballard

“My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.”

Want Kind Ends Kindness Lists Partners Laundry

Author:Jennifer Carpenter

“My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.”

Knows Want Writing Book Use Reading Interesting Practice Constant My Favorite Lists Slow Down Distracted Dictionary Practise Favorite Book

Author:Beverly Cleary

“In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.”

Want Helping Night Sides Boys Plans Goes On My Family Excited Dinner Lists Plates Handful Menus

Author:Cat Cora

“Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.”

Ifs Doe Support Pages Paid Lists Copies Touching Site

Author:Marco Arment

“I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.”

Sticks Lists

Author:Freema Agyeman

“From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.”

Ifs Hard Views Company Innovation Point Of View Lists Apps

Author:Tim Cook

“You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested.”

Knows Wanted Used House Minutes Organization Presses Lists Used To Be Release Arrested Fbi Fugitive Hoover Top 10 Press Release Most Wanted J Edgar Hoover

Author:Howie Carr

“I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.”

Ifs Feels Hands Would Be One Thing Effects Comfortable Roots Lists Cards If I Could Sleight Of Hand

Author:Ricky Jay

“When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?”

Knows Mean Doe Jobs Names Journey Particular Lists Translate Really Mean New Job

Author:Eric Jerome Dickey

“I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.”

Book Hard Facts Figures Lists Memorizing

Author:Charles Van Doren

“Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.”

Kind Persons Might Results Figures Draws Argument Tests Lists Pros And Cons

Author:David Herbert Donald

“Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.”

Knows Needs Wells Subjects Areas Lists Shooting

Author:Nigel Dennis

“There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.”

Ifs Reason Grows Musician Moved Lists Weary Nyc

Author:Trevor Dunn

“I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.”

People Thinking Play Might Late Sitting Lists Too Late Thinking God

Author:Joel Edgerton

“Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.”

Trying Might Weapons Remains Lists Nuclear Destroyed Acquire Iran Target Nuclear Weapons Survived Saddam Israeli Kim Gaddafi

Author:Robert Fisk

“I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.”

Long Shows Fun Boring Lists Long Ago

Author:Steve Forbert

“When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.”

Morning Lists Campaigns Volunteer Supervisors

Author:Ed Gillespie

“As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list.”

“When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.”

Knows Firsts Made Next Morning New York Thousand Phones Lists Agents Made It Pounds Really Mean New York Times Phone Calls Gorillas

Author:Lisa Gardner

“If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.”

Ifs Looks Ends Whole Home Earth Moving Left Cutting Tree Lists Fuel Devastation Deforestation

Author:Clive Anderson

“Every year I look at the 'GQ' Best-Dressed List and have thought what an honour it must be to be included. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my own face in there.”

Years Believe Looks Eye Faces My Own Saws Lists Honour Best Dressed

Author:Douglas Booth

“John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.”

Want Enemy Ready Lists Ruthless John Kerry

Author:Douglas Brinkley

“I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.”

People Thinking Knows Littles Art Directors Lists Museums Collectors

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."”

“Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.”

Art Girl Media Entertainment Lists Christmas Gift Syphilis Herpes

Author:Eminem

“Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower resistance of the immune system, and loss of memory. The list could be extended almost indefinitely. Evolution seems indeed to have arranged things so that all our systems deteriorate, and that we invest in repair only as much as we are worth.”

Life Heart Seems Lying Memories Loss Evolution Rate Bones Lists Resistance Familiar Immune Decrease Immune System Kidneys Weakening Arteries Filtration

Book:The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee

Source: The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee

“In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.”

World Would Be Used Individual Lost Levels Business Risk One Thing Ideals Dollars Lists Billions Finance Vegetarian Speakers Reducing Traders Betting Derivatives Ideal World Esperanto

Author:John Lanchester

“You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.”

Form Language Sports Special Stage Skills Horse Boxes Extremes Lists Agents Combat Riding Fencing Horse Riding Extreme Sports Motorbike

Author:Isla Fisher

“I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.”

Believe Stills Moments Lists Believe In Me

Author:Kathy Griffin

“In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.”

People Knows Years Moments Common Percent Lists Genes Sequence

Author:Walter Gilbert

“Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.”

People Knows Writing Persons Whole Character Depth Lists Mike

Author:Jane Horrocks

“I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.”

Thinking Stills Enough Faces Reading Fun College Lucky Summer Lists Best Times Summer Reading

Author:Margaret Haddix

“Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.”

Sometimes Democratic Lists Print Elitist Elitism

Author:David Ives

“Any film featuring Bradley Cooper's gorgeous blue eyes is automatically on my must-see list and they did not disappoint in 'The Words,' which is so intense and confusing that I was pretty lost by the end!”

Ends Eye Film Lost Blue Lists Intense Confusing Gorgeous Disappoint Blue Eyes

Author:Gayle King

“Everything that I think that I need to do, is all in order to propel me to some place, that when I get there I think I will be happier. So, everything that I am doing, no matter what it is, all of my lists of rights and wrongs, are all about me getting to a manifestation, that I believe I will then be happier... So why don't I just take the short cut and just be happy?”

Thinking Needs Believe Matter Happiness Order I Believe Cutting Rights No Matter What Lists Manifestation Just Be Happy Short Cuts Rights And Wrongs

Author:Esther Hicks

“It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.”

“In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.”

People Needs Children Care Lasts Poor Party Opinion Republican Lists Republican Party Old People Poor People

Author:Rickie Lee Jones

“I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.”

Book Bigs Black Lists Comic Killers Comic Book Chicks Widows Black Widow

Author:Stana Katic

“I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.”

Littles Musical Lists

Author:Swoosie Kurtz

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