Andrew Zimmern Quotes
I consider a perfect hot dog on the street to be as valid a food experience as dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
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All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
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I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.
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Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
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It's like fiction - the fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind. You go through heavy emotional responses to these stories, and wrestling is a similar thing - but it's happening in real space.
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Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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I consider a perfect hot dog on the street to be as valid a food experience as dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
