Geoffrey Zakarian Quotes
I don't usually have time for TV. When I get home at night, I just want to fall asleep.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.
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Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.
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I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.
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The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.
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I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.
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As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.
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Cursing is heavily used in the Irish language. It's not a stretch for me, and I have no qualms about it. It doesn't fall far from the real me.
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My family is not so different from the rest of America. I think people love to see that, 'Oh, just because she's on television and in Hollywood, I can still relate to her.'
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I don't usually have time for TV. When I get home at night, I just want to fall asleep.
