Geoffrey Zakarian Quotes

I use the confit principle for chicken thighs. I season them with herbs and garlic, let them marinate, and then cook them in chicken fat.

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Eye

• I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Future
  • Career
  • Past

• I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Important
  • Career
  • Fans

• While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Important
  • Job

• It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Same

• The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • History
  • Soviet

• The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Future
  • Today
  • Past

• When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reading

• I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Important
  • Children
  • Think

• Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Life
  • Friend

• Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Die
  • Will
  • Without

• You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.

  

  Xenophon
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Discipline

• I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Up
  • Music
  • Studying

• I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Man
  • Energy
  • Find

• Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Wealth
  • Where

• The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.

  

  Maaza Mengiste
  • Thinking
  • Rich
  • Land

• To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Pretty

• That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.

  

  Charlie Clouser
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Dark

• It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • King
  • Lonely

• If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I use the confit principle for chicken thighs. I season them with herbs and garlic, let them marinate, and then cook them in chicken fat.

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian