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• I’m a pretty chill person. I’m kind of a homebody and I like to just hang out with friends and have dinner. I’m not, you know - I’m definitely not Neal Caffrey in the sense that I’m not, you know, drinking a $500 bottle of wine at a nightclub. I’m just - I’m pretty chill.

  Matt Bomer

  Drinking, Wine, Bottles

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• I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.

  Jamie Oliver

  Kids, Play, Giving

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

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• When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, Trying, Way

  "One On One with Michael Kors". Interview with Nina Garcia, www.marieclaire.com. August 19, 2009.

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• My mother raised me and there was some painful and difficult times, because she was pursuing a career and also very actively involved in expressing her political views. But, looking back, I wouldnt switch her for a normal mom, even though there were moments when Id come back from school and wish shed just be there in a gingham dress putting dinner on the table. I never had that. But now Im really glad I have her.

  Natasha Richardson

  Mom, Mother, School

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• If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.

  Slash

  Hendrix, Hanging Out, If I Could

  "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

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• Maybe I’m old, but to me, ‘going out’ means going out to dinner. It’s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the charm of flirting, and really speaking to somebody.

  Keri Russell

  Mean, Flirting, Going Out

  "Keri Russell on the Art of Eating, Afternoon Wine, and Bad Music". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, Damon Gardner, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image

  Michael York

  Thinking, Wife, Done

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• Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.

  Judy Chicago

  Party, Accomplishment, Goal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight.

  David Beckham

  Lunch, People, Midnight

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

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• Actually, I was having dinner with Michael [Stipe, of R.E.M.] when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

  Billy Corgan

  Kids, Deep Water, Albums

  Icon Magazine, April 1998.

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• I'm not supposed to have chocolate before dinner.

  Charlotte Lewis

  Chocolate

  "Lost In Numbers: Forty-two Memorable Quotes From All Five Seasons Of 'Lost'" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2010.

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• The most intense thing I’ve ever done was bring a girl to Passover dinner.

  Drake

  Girl, Done, Intense

  "Drake Looks for Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Guns aren't just a tool of last resort. They're awesome. That's why people stroke them. And name them, and take pictures with them. You guys aren't just firearm enthusiasts — you're ammosexuals. And before you try and deny you have some sort of unnatural romantic relationship with your gun, consider this. You're taking it out to dinner! Because it completes you. Get a room.

  Bill Maher

  Gun, Names, People

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• I like it when the waiter askes you if you want parmesan cheese on your dinner, yeah, give me essence of puke all over me tea!

  Lee Evans

  Essence, Giving, Tea

  "Lee Evans: XL Tour Live 2005", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

  Elizabeth Enright

  Father, House, Picnics

  Elizabeth Enright (2015). “The Four-Story Mistake”, p.180, Macmillan

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• If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Dream, Choices, Community

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• I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.

  Steven Spielberg

  Morning, Home, School

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• It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.

  Lou Reed

  Rip, Writing, People

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• Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three. Then I hunt some more until sundown, bathe again, put on white tie and tails to keep up appearances, eat a huge dinner, smoke a cigar and sleep like a log until the sun comes up again to redden the eastern sky. This is living…. Could it be more perfect?

  Annie Dillard

  Sleep, Sky, White

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• I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that - in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the - of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House.

  George W. Bush

  White, America, House

  George W. Bush during a Meeting with President Arroyo of the Philippines, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 24, 2008.

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• The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Numbers, Grace, Three

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• Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

  Jean Anouilh

  Paris, Way, France

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dog, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Government, World

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy' conclusion

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• When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

  Gelett Burgess

  Inspirational, Food, Men

  Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”

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