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
  • Voice
  • Speak
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Mind

• I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.

  

  Marion Bartoli
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Brain

• Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

  

  Jeremy Collier
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads, I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt. LAPD, the nurse asked did my knee hurt? I was in pain, little Martians tryin' ta take my brain, Hospitals came, detectives wrote down my name. I was to blame, my life never been the same. A true story; I tell ya, it'll never bore me. My classmate died, my other friend named Cory Drinkin' 40s, he jumped out the project window, Stabbed himself with a yellow number 2 pencil.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Door
  • Stories
  • Mysterious

• Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

  

  Chris Shiflett Foo Fighters
  • Blessing
  • Praise
  • Meet

• Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Dream
  • Amazing
  • Motherhood

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

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian