Geoffrey Zakarian Quotes

Undercook swordfish, and you get rubber. Overcook it, and you lose the fat and succulence.

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• We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Stand

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Enemy

• I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Trying
  • Next
  • Dave

• I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Father
  • Parents

• Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Joy
  • Care
  • Expectation

• There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Way

• Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • College
  • Psychology

• If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Soul
  • Me

• Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Work
  • Different
  • Independent

• I'm really more of an executive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • More
  • Really
  • Executive

• It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• TV is my first love and I haven't disappeared from it totally.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Love
  • Disappeared
  • Totally

• He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Life

• What sustains us in any competition are the moments of interiority when the competition vanishes; what sustains us in any struggle are the moments when we forget the struggle.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Moments
  • Struggle
  • Competition

• ISIS is not at our doorstep. Illegal immigrants are not only at our doorstep, but millions of them are already through the door, murdering far more Americans than ISIS ever will.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Door

• Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Road

• I've been diagnosed with what's called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what they should do. It's kinda like being a body builder and you have muscles that are so large that they don't allow you to have flexibility, if that makes sense.

  

  Brian Littrell

• ...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Art
  • Today

• Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Great

• I think seeing is about truly looking, observing, and taking things in with an open mind. It's easy to see things at face value but some of the most beautiful things are not apparent at first glance. The works that stick with me and that I find to be most beautiful are often not aesthetically inviting right off the bat. So I think having an open mind and allowing the lines to blur between art, music, fashion, food, what have you, all leads to cultivating a much more open and enjoyable aesthetic sensibility.

  

  Chloe Wise
  • Aesthetic
  • Seeing
  • Sensibility

• Undercook swordfish, and you get rubber. Overcook it, and you lose the fat and succulence.

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian