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• I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.

  Michelle Tea

  Running, Dream, Sweet

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• The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Oil, Cocktail Parties

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

  Jane Birkin

  Fashion, Looks, Care

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• the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?

  Letitia Baldrige

  Party, Talking, Looks

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• Playing a Disney princess is the most amazing, unbelievable thing and on the other, it's completely terrifying. I would say it's a cocktail of every sort of emotion. Princesses are great role models, they teach you about grief loss and have big hearts.

  Lily James

  Grief, Princess, Heart

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• It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Party, Men, Dating

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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

  Jilly Cooper

  Party, Cocktail Parties, Want

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• We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, Morning, Pain

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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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• I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also chatter with my friends and family. It's a cocktail party with a fraction of the awkwardness of an actual cocktail party.

  Roxane Gay

  Party, Ideas, Family And Friends

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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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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• It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he ends up there. Gary Condit make sense to me. He's away from his family, he's in D.C. - if he was a car dealer in the [San Fernando] Valley somewhere out there, he'd be the guy who was trying to get laid by offering you the free undercoating package.

  Dennis Miller

  Party, Offering, Guitar

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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, Cocktail Parties, Wealth

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

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• All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Song, Food

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• Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels!

  Sheridan Smith

  Girl, Boys, Blonde

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• A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

  Robert Breault

  Party, Holiday, Cocktail Parties

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• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and
  deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with
  an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic
  cocktail!

  Don Was

  Running, America, Voice

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• While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Forgiveness, Humorous

  Jim Norton (2008). “I Hate Your Guts”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Special, Six, Needs

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• We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

  David Sedaris

  Drinking, Healing, Emotional

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.

  Raymond Chandler

  Husband, Party, Fighting

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “Trouble Is My Business: A Novel”, p.215, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

  Kurt Busiek

  Party, Views, Tools

  "Mtv Geek Interview: Kurt Busiek And Brent Anderson At The Barcelona Comicon!". Interview with Janna O'shea, www.mtv.com. April 22, 2011.

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• If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Ebola, Cocktail Parties

  Rand Paul: Ebola is 'not like AIDS'" by Ashley Killough, Justin Peligri, www.cnn.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

  Ricky Jay

  Sunday, Chinese, Shrimp

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