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• I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole nightclub scene. Cocktail parties drive me mad. So I do my job and I stay away from the rest of it.

  Johnny Carson

  Running, Jobs, Party

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

  Tom Ford

  Party, Cocktails, Dinner

  "My List: Tom Ford in 24 Hours". www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2012.

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• What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Dream, Children

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.129, Ballantine Books

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• There were times when I was broke, when I was down in Florida and I had to go to cocktail parties for 500 bucks - to see the guy that used to be in pictures. I'm not ashamed of that. I've never done anything that I was ashamed of. I've done a lot of things I didn't mean to do.

  Mickey Rooney

  Party, Mean, Florida

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• The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Dog, Party, Names

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.128, Faber & Faber

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• I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.

  Alexander McQueen

  Party, People, Want

  "Review/Fashion; In London, a Newfound Maturity" by Amy M. Spindler, www.nytimes.com. September 30, 1997.

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• A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

  Lin Yutang

  Party, Cocktails, Interest

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Party, Great Love, Love And Friendship

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• A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

  Ronan Farrow

  New York, Party, Simple

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• Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.

  Ayn Rand

  Party, Government, Pressure Groups

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.241, Penguin

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• But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.

  Albert Camus

  Nice, Party, Simple

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.33, Vintage

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• Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.

  Peter Sellers

  Party, Should Have, Feet

  "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, p. 168, 1999.

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• The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

  Peg Bracken

  Party, People, Alive

  Peg Bracken (1964). “I Try to Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book”

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• Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.

  Barbara Walters

  Party, People, Technique

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• There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

  E. W. Howe

  Party, Food, People

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• Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Party, Cocktails, Wealth

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

  Jilly Cooper

  Party, Cocktails, Want

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• Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them & nobody ever takes note of it 'cause it's not the answer they wanted to hear-what they want to hear is here's how you get an agent, here's how you write a script, here's how you do this-but I always say, “Be so good they can't ignore you.” If somebody's thinking, “How can I be really good?” people are going to come to you. It's much easier doing it that way than going to cocktail parties.

  Steve Martin

  Party, Writing, Thinking

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• To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

  Elsa Maxwell

  New York, Party, People

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• I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

  Robert Osborne

  Party, Successful, Dining

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• We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Party, Issues, Marketing

  "The New Influencers: A Marketer's Guide to the New Social Media". Book by Paul Gillin and ‎Geoffrey A. Moore, 2007.

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• I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples.

  Lauren Collins

  Party, Two, Feet

  "Sole Mate" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Party, Talking, Cocktails

  Teresa Medeiros (2012). “Goodnight Tweetheart”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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