Andrew Zimmern Quotes
I don't like being at food festivals and have someone from some weird cable access show that's all about lifestyle get in my face with a microphone and wants to know which party I'm going to later... That just is pointless kind of stuff to me.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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Practices were tough.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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In luxury, ubiquity will kill you - it means you're not really luxury anymore.
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I plunged in, and set up a Twitter account. My first problem was that there were already two Margaret Atwoods on Twitter, one of them with my picture. This grew; I gave commands; then all other Margaret Atwoods stopped together. I like to think they were sent to a nunnery, but in any case they disappeared. The Twitterpolice had got them. I felt a bit guilty.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
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Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.
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I don't like being at food festivals and have someone from some weird cable access show that's all about lifestyle get in my face with a microphone and wants to know which party I'm going to later... That just is pointless kind of stuff to me.
