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Andrew Zimmern

"When someone who's been homeless and actually had to take meals on the handout or steal purses on the backs of park benches to be able to eat, not that that was right. My head was definitely not in the right place when I was out there using but when you share your greatest weaknesses and the most intimate parts of your story, I think it makes a real impact on people. I think what comes from the heart reaches the heart."

Source : Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

Andrew Zimmern

#Real Quotes #Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write Englishâ€•it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of themâ€•then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.”
“Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.”
“Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”

Source : Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home”, p.362, Simon and Schuster
“I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.”

Source : E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.70, Simon and Schuster
“From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.”
“The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.”
“What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopperâ€™s painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopperâ€™s vision we see more.”
“Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.”

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