Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'

Jimmy Iovine

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• I love making smoothies post-workout. My favorite - depending on the day - is either a chocolate whey protein shake with banana and peanut butter, or one with vanilla and berries.

  

  Parker Young
  • Love
  • Day
  • Chocolate

• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Water

• When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Yourself
  • Chocolate
  • Medical

• I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Live
  • Sweet
  • Chocolate

• I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Week
  • Chocolate
  • Cake

• I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.

  

  Madylin Sweeten
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Chocolate

• I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

  

  Kanye West
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Chocolate

• I worked with a couple of chocolate Labradors, which were a lot of fun. Very excitable. They're cute.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Fun
  • Couple
  • Cute

• There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

  

  Candice Olson
  • House
  • Black
  • Color

• I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • America
  • Passion
  • Best

• Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.

  

  Floriana Lima
  • Kind
  • Chocolate
  • Jam

• I'm a chocolate addict.

  

  Zendaya
  • Chocolate
  • Addict

• The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Happy
  • You
  • Chocolate

• Not all roles you do can be chocolate sweet.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • You
  • Sweet
  • Chocolate

• I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Walk
  • Chocolate
  • Eating

• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Sense
  • Writer
  • Fascinating

• Since Switzerland has nothing else to identify it…and since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Remember
  • Snow
  • Chocolate

• To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Space
  • Rain
  • Chocolate

• And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.

  

  Jason Reitman

• I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Rock
  • Determination

• In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Food

• I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Chocolate