Andrew Zimmern Quotes
Like many other chef-entrepreneurs, I am convinced that fast food does not mean bad food.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
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Like many other chef-entrepreneurs, I am convinced that fast food does not mean bad food.
