#want

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough. ↗

— Shirley Bassey

#because #enough #fragile #i #i think

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now. ↗

— Mario Batali

#i do #kids #lean #listen #make

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles. ↗

— Mario Batali

#books #cakes #constantly #could #devoted

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. ↗

— Mario Batali

#battle #between #cook #customer #eat

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to. ↗

— Mario Batali

#cook #cookware #dragon #duke #five

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving. ↗

— Mario Batali

#dinner #else #even #generous #giving

I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America. ↗

— Max Baucus

#because #better #better place #every #help

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#achieve #case #dancing #depth #doing

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#communist #doctrines #fed #fed up #go

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#baseball #better #first #game #had