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Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat. -- Giada De Laurentiis
Only thing I am testing positive for is Pasta or Cheese. -- Joe Lauzon
As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay. -- Michael Chang
I'm a huge pasta and pizza lover. I can eat those every single day. -- Shay Mitchell
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running. -- Joe Bastianich
Pasta is my favorite comfort food, but sometimes my body really wants a steak, and I'll have one. -- Donna Karan
Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. -- Sophia Bush
Co-exist whether you believe in Pistachios or Pasta, Poseidon or the Prophet cause Gods and Religions cannot exist without us. -- ALAgrApHY
Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy? -- Sherry Stringfield
I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done. -- Devon Werkheiser
Pasta isn't just for Italian food anymore. Now there are tasty pasta recipes found in Asian cuisine, and it's emerging as a newfound love for vegans. -- Marcus Samuelsson
If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful. -- Emeril Lagasse
I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
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I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen. -- Queen Latifah
My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years. -- Tom Brady
I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. -- Giada De Laurentiis
Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York. -- Giada De Laurentiis
Life is a combination of magic and pasta. -- Federico Fellini
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. -- Sophia Loren
I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid. -- Bernadette Peters
Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again. -- Monica Seles
I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta. -- Naomi Campbell
When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure. -- Alex Ferguson
Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it. -- Cassandra Clare
I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. -- Franco Nero
With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini! -- Terence Stamp
Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora. -- Anthony Bourdain
I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it. -- Giada De Laurentiis
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama -- Guy Steele
I'm not a vegetarian, and I like filet minion which is sort of a guilty pleasure because I have vegetarian leanings. I eat that once in a while, but generally speaking I like to eat vegetarian things. I really like pasta. I really like bread with olive oil and garlic and I like salads. -- Jesse Michaels
In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta. -- Steve Albini
Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday. -- Marcus Samuelsson
When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce. -- Giada De Laurentiis
I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line. -- Maria Sharapova
I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if you're going to do something naughty, make it really enjoyable. -- Bonnie Langford
I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils. -- Apolo Ohno
I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids. -- Mia Hamm
I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.' -- Vera Farmiga
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings. -- Robert Farrar Capon
I don't know why people eat so badly. I could eat pasta all the time, but it really is fattening. And I love ice cream, but I can't do that. There was a time, until I was in my mid-forties, when I could eat a whole pizza - and really, no effect. -- Christopher Walken
If I could eat whatever I wanted every day, I would have Domino's pizza with pasta carbonara inside every slice. And at night, I would have Neapolitan ice cream until I felt absolutely toxic. And then I would drift off telling myself, 'It's going to be O.K... It's going to be O.K. you're going to train in the morning.' -- Robert Downey, Jr.
I'd like to thank Dariel pasta. -- Phil Baroni
Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time. -- Steven Gerrard
What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto! -- Stephen Colbert
Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta. -- Elizabeth Olsen
I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta. -- Emma Roberts
Eating healthy is a constant battle. I love chips. I'm a huge pasta fan. -- Hayden Panettiere
How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind? -- Jandy Nelson
I'd take pasta over skinny any day. More importantly, I'd take health over looks. -- Kathryn Budig
I'm a big pasta guy, but I've cut it out to stay fast and lean. -- Russell Wilson
My repertoire is small, but I can make a pretty tasty pasta sauce from scratch. -- Cynthia Addai-Robinson
Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day. -- Theo Rossi
America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden. -- Joe Bastianich
I received a shot and broke my tooth. Unfortunately, we Italians only eat pasta al dente. -- Roberto Baggio
Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle. -- Joe Bastianich
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling. -- Agnes Varda
I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love. -- Banks
It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden. -- Alice Waters
I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week. -- Sylvia Kristel
All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry. -- Sara Paretsky
If you can't pass the ball properly, a bowl of pasta's not going to make that much difference! -- Harry Redknapp
I can cook about two things. I can boil hot water for the only pasta I can make. -- Drew Barrymore
I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool. -- Mel Brooks
My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty. -- Giada De Laurentiis
At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family. -- Jean Reno
Try a recipe that uses leafy vegetables like kale, or switch to filling, high fiber grains like whole-wheat pasta. -- Bob Harper
The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work! -- Ina Garten
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? -- Anita Loos
I would say that's my normal thing, salad for lunch with chicken or some sort of protein and then pasta. -- Devon Windsor
I don't put cream in any pasta noodles ever. I would use a little butter, but I don't ever use cream. -- Mario Batali
I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean - no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me. -- Christine Teigen
If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me. -- Natalie Imbruglia
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. -- Dean Koontz
I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean - no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me. -- Christine Teigen
You dont need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett. -- Vicki Lawrence
Thanksgiving is the most complicated meal you can think of. Every night, dinner is just pasta. It's just different shapes of pasta. -- Jim Gaffigan
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I was told to stay away from pasta and bread for two weeks. Not eating pasta? That'll kill me. Anything else, but why pasta? -- Tommy Lasorda
I eat lots of veggies and pasta and nuts, tofu and soups. Works well for my body, and I also feel more in tune. -- Isabel Lucas
Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot. -- Rachel Caine
My ideal meal would probably be the cheesiest pasta or pizza, followed by something creamy and chocolaty. I mean, just the worst things, really. -- Ricky Gervais
I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home. -- Tom Conti
Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease. -- Joel Fuhrman
Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying. -- Demetri Martin
I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
The transfats found in margarine, packaged cookies, crackers and pasta increase fat in your midsection, and can actually redistribute fat from other parts of the body to the belly. -- Mehmet Oz
When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta. -- Mario Batali
I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta. -- Samantha Bond
Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Keeping some calorie-dense food in your diet-whether it is meat, pasta, beer, or cake-allows you to reach satiety more quickly and easily. And this will keep you from feeling deprived. -- Mark Bittman
I do have some leftover chicken and pasta. (Grace) And wine?...That's acceptable (Julian) Look, buster, I'm not your cooking wench. Mess with me and I'll feed you Alpo. (Grace) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients. -- Joe Bastianich
When I'm in Italy on a Friday night, my first supper there is a big bowl of fresh pasta and a glass of local wine, sitting outside. There's nothing better. -- Alan Titchmarsh
Eataly is the greatest - it's like food galore there. They have all of these little stations, like a pasta area and a pizza area. And they have the best gelato. -- Lilla Crawford
I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it. -- Malin Akerman
On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.' -- Katherine Jenkins
Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
When I'm home, I cook and try to eat really clean. I try to eat vegetables at every meal. I stay away from pasta and bread and have brown rice and potatoes instead. -- Marisa Miller
I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta! -- Leo Buscaglia
Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to detail in the service, food, and amazing wines will blow anyone away. -- Elizabeth Falkner
In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple. -- Clive James
One of the biggest misconceptions is that carbs are bad. It's a fad right now. Full disclosure: I'm sponsored by Barilla. But I've always been free about saying I love carbs, including pasta, in moderation. -- Mikaela Shiffrin
I don't have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want. -- Maria Sharapova
It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice. -- Craig Johnston
Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe. -- Jennifer Esposito
Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans. -- Geena Davis
In Manhattan, marriage is a trend. Couples kiss over their arugula and radicchio salads. They fondle each other's genitals while devouring their pasta puttanesca. By the time the tiramisu arrives, they've slid under the table. -- Cynthia Heimel

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