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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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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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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I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with.
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There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
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Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.
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I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.
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Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli construction froze not the settlements but the diplomacy.
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Like many other chef-entrepreneurs, I am convinced that fast food does not mean bad food.
