Dishes Quotes - Page 20

• The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Men, Knives, People

  "China as a Heap of Loose Sand" (1924)

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• You're only as good as your last dish.

  Chuck Hughes

  Lasts

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• You might be a redneck if your satellite dish payment delays buying school clothes for the kids.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  School, Kids, Redneck

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• When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Husband, Home

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• Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

  Bobby Flay

  Vegetables, Psychology, Side Dishes

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• It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

  Ted Allen

  Talking, Cooking, Guests

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

  Rachel Nichols

  Mean, Literature, Classic

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• There's one thing that I know about myself, I could wash dishes and be happy.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Knows, One Thing

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When I masturbate I fantasize about having my own apartment. I used to think about Cindy Crawford now I think about leaving a dish in the sink overnight.

  Greg Giraldo

  Thinking, Leaving, Used

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• I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.

  Quentin Crisp

  Pay, Behave

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.

  Bobby Flay

  Moving, Thinking, Fire

  Bobby Flay (2007). “Bobby Flay's Boy Gets Grill: 125 Reasons to Light Your Fire!”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• [My kids] are, sweet, kind, funny, smart, respectful people, and they treat everybody with respect. That's not just the biases of a parent. We feel pretty good when we hear back from friends, cause they still have sleepovers and they go to other folks houses and when the parents say, oh you know, Malia, she's just so sweet, or Sasha helped to pick up the dishes.

  Barack Obama

  Sweet, Smart, Kids

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Summer, Nice, Garden

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• It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Reality, House, Parent

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• I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Pages Turning, Ideas

  Interview with Tom Chatfield, tomchatfield.net.

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• I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Respect, Flight, Frills

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• I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Coffee, Ambition, Boys

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Creative, Process, Subconscious

  "Sinéad O'Connor: 'I define success differently'". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

  Mike Myers

  Country, Cities, Musician

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• I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

  Rachel Nichols

  Yellow, Gloves, Cleaning

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• [My favorite dish to cook] is fried chicken, and by the way I'm good at it, too. I make really good fried chicken.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Way, My Favorite, Chickens

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• Plan ahead! Prepare dishes ahead of time if you can. Keep it simple. Most importantly, have fun and enjoy your guests.

  Alyssa Milano

  Fun, Simple, Guests

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

  Mitch McConnell

  Country, Believe, Government

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• I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.

  Ricky Martin

  Exercise, Cycling, Class

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

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• If you could learn how to make a perfect lemon tart then you got a story. If you don't feel like that, make a perfect chocolate chip cookie, but have five go-to dishes like that and you can move them around, change them up just a little bit, and always have something in the can.

  Mario Batali

  Moving, Perfect, Chocolate

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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