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• Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

  Fred Allen

  Party, Men, People

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• Everyone else is just cocktails.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

  Eric Kripke

  Stones, Napkins, Shows

  "Executive Producer Eric Kripke and New Show Runner Sera Gamble Interview SUPERNATURAL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2010.

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• The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.

  Martha Stewart

  Party, America, World

  Martha Stewart, Elizabeth Hawes (1982). “Entertaining”, Clarkson Potter

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• The entire island of Martha's Vineyard has gone Obama crazy. There's even a cocktail that they've named after Barack Obama. It's called the Obamarita. Not to be confused with a cocktail inspired by John McCain, the Cosmopoligrip. And then there was one a couple of years ago inspired by George W. Bush, the Mojidiot. Of course, there was the Bill Clinton Screwdriver.

  David Letterman

  Couple, Confused, Crazy

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• Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Party, Artist, Cocktail Parties

  "A generation of artists were wiped out by Aids and we barely talk about it" by Suzanne Moore, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2016.

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• Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet. .. We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality

  Rob Bell

  Stars, Reality, Rocks

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• I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, and Screenwriter Diablo Cody YOUNG ADULT Interview". collider.com. December 6, 2011.

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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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• “You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.”

  Robin Roberts

  Sports, Shapes, Way

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• Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

  Julia Child

  Party, Food, Cocktail Parties

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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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• If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

  Ina Garten

  Sweet, Fun, Party

  "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

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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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• When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle, absolutely incredible. Your ancestors have gone back hundreds of millions of years." And to develop a thing as simple as a shrimp cocktail, you have to calculate the hundreds of millions of years that have preceded that moment where you're sitting there with your sauce and fork poised.

  Sylvia Earle

  Simple, Thinking, Years

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet
  it is my other who sits in a ball and cries.
  My other beats a tin drum in my heart.
  My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep.
  My other cries and cries and cries
  when I put on a cocktail dress.

  Anne Sexton

  Sleep, Heart, Kissing

  Anne Sexton, “The Other”

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• My husband says my toes are like Wall's cocktail sausages. He feels peckish whenever he sees them.

  Amanda Holden

  Wall, Husband, Toes

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• It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks. It pleases the senses. The shared delight of those who partake in common of this refreshing nectar breaks the ice of formal reserve. Taut nerves relax, taut muscles relax, tired eyes brighten, tongues loosen, friendships deepen, the whole world becomes a better place in which to live.

  David A. Embury

  Eye, Tired, Ice

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• Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

  Edgar Guest

  Life, Sweet, Pleasure

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• I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

  Haruki Murakami

  Simple, Wrong Number, Ideas

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.83, Random House

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• Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.

  Eric Weiner

  Country, Party, Simple

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• so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.

  John Irving

  Mother, Party, Dirty

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• Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

  John Mortimer

  Running, Children, Party

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• In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Kings, Party, Molotov Cocktail

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Molotov Cocktail, Fence, Thrown

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.879, Scholastic Inc.

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