Curry Quotes

• People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.

  Ann Curry

  Mom, Moving, Careers

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• Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Life, Emotional, Religion

  C NORTHCOTE PARKINSON (1965). “EAST AND WEST”

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• I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

  Simon Helberg

  Teaching, Kitchen, Ignorant

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

  Peter Ustinov

  Food, Night, Men

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• I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Sweet, Two, Three

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

  Mitch Daniels

  Effort, Favors, Constant

  "Transcript: Daniels gives GOP response to State of the Union". www.cnn.com. January 24, 2012.

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• If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them.

  Carol Alt

  Jesus, Needs, Answers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Britain is no longer totally a white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks, and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips, it's curry.

  Marianne Jean-Baptiste

  Horse, White, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

  Ray Bradbury

  Argument, Basil, Savory

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• If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him credit for something someone else did.

  James Abourezk

  Government, Giving, Credit

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• For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Tyrants, People

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• ...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family.... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House :...He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. "

  William Dalrymple

  Country, Kings, Coffee

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• The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.

  Lesley Nicol

  Husband, Firsts, Meals

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• When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

  Rick Perry

  Ducks, Issues, Trying

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• I'm fine with selecting Curry because the season he's had has been incredible.

  Mark Jackson

  Basketball, Mvp, Incredibles

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• A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.

  Stephen King

  Country, Religious, Hypocrite

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was diagnosed with swine flu, it was a big relief that Young Saeng was with me. When everyone wouldn't eat with me, Young Saeng was the only one who ate stuff like curry with me.

  Kim Hyun-joong

  Relief, Flu, Stuff

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• People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

  Tamala Jones

  People, Mexican, Cheese

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• It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?" THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. "Is it like this every night?" EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT. "Doesn't anyone know?" ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD, ISN'T IT? "Gosh!" Death leaned over the saddle and looked down at the kingdoms of the world. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

  Terry Pratchett

  Beautiful, Night, World

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• In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.

  Marge Piercy

  Yams, Brass

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.96, Knopf

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• I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

  Jack Dee

  Cooking, Trying, Rustic

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• I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine and curry and cheeses.

  Maeve Binchy

  Sweet, Wine, Teeth

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• In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!

  Curtis Stone

  Kids, Son, Practice

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• I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.

  Ned Kelly

  Wisdom, Hands, Law

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• That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

  Plato

  Political, Wish, Citizens

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