Dinner Quotes - Page 20

• If I had to give my younger self some advice, I think it would be that you have to laugh at things-things that scare you, things that intimidate you, things that hurt you, When you're humiliated, when you're rejected, you have to be able to take these bad experiences you have and turn them into a great dinner party joke.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Party, Thinking

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• For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Kids, Cheesy, Meat

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• Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Perfect, Dancer, Brave

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• We have happy days, remember good dinners.

  Charles Darwin

  Happy Day, Remember

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• Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

  Diane Ackerman

  Senior, Sweet, Memories

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• Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

  E. O. Wilson

  Burning, Painting, Destroying

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• Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

  Oliver Heaviside

  Understanding, Digestion, Manipulation

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• MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Clothes, Carriages

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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• You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

  Winston Churchill

  Sleep, Lunch, Clothes

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.999, RosettaBooks

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• Only hire people you want to have dinner with.

  Tom Ford

  People, Want

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• No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Strong, Coffee, Black

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• A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Parent, Musician, Jazz

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• Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

  Phoebe Cates

  Party, Thoughtful, Way

  "Perfect Gifts, According to Phoebe Cates". abcnews.go.com. June 01, 2006.

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• My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Mother, Father, Parent

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• As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girlfriend, Tired, Sleepovers

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• Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

  Katherine Heigl

  Kids, Sacrifice, Night

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• Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give you a choice. If you want to run for President, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. I’m lucky I was raised to believe that my opinion at the dinner table was valuable. My mum and I spoke as loudly as my brothers.

  Emma Watson

  Running, Brother, Believe

  "Emma Watson, The December 2014 ELLE Cover Interview" by Lorraine Candy, www.elle.com. March 06, 2015.

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• I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.

  Marc Maron

  Couple, Distance, Guitar

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• Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.

  Josh Hartnett

  Running, Home, Sleep

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

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• When I read the pilot for Married with Children, it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. Hed come home from work, and the wife would maybe say I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway. And he would say Fine, whats for dinner?

  Ed O'Neill

  Dog, Morning, Uncles

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• I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Simple, Vegetables, Eating Well

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

  Michael Gambon

  Clubs, Firearms

  "Behind the scenes" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2004.

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• The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

  Lily Rabe

  Soccer, Brother, Focus

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

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• The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

  Tom Baker

  Taste, Knows, Bad Taste

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• I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.

  Kate Walsh

  Trying, Difficult, Cooks

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

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