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• Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.

  Lynne Truss

  Simple, Skills, Icons

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• Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?

  Lynne Truss

  Mean, Choices, Brain

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• Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

  Martin Amis

  Shopping, Family And Friends, Novelists

  Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.16, Random House

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• Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Inspirational, Guests, Dinner

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• The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Doe, Sage, Protection

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• In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.

  Cat Cora

  Boys, Night, Goes On

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• I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

  Chris Rock

  Nice, Book, Tables

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• I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.

  Bobby Flay

  Morning, Sleep, Years

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• One recent menu for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo consisted of orange glazed chicken, fresh fruit crepe, steamed peas and mushrooms, and rice pilaf. Sounds like the sort of thing you'd get at Windows on the World - if it still existed.

  Ann Coulter

  Mushrooms, Orange, Sound

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.121, Crown Forum

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• When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.

  Aziz Ansari

  Secret, Trying, Burgers

  "Aziz Ansari Interview". Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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• Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

  Eric Schlosser

  Real, Taste, Cost

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• Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu.

  Jacques Pepin

  Mean, Tuna, Tomatoes

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• If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

  Jamie Oliver

  Design, Support, Junk

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

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• The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

  George Will

  War, Men, Age

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• For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.'

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Google, Finals, Add

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• When I created Chipotle in 1993, I had a very simple idea: Offer a simple menu of great food prepared fresh each day, using many of the same cooking techniques as gourmet restaurants. Then serve the food quickly, in a cool atmosphere. It was food that I wanted, and thought others would like too. We've never strayed from that original idea. The critics raved and customers began lining up at my tiny burrito joint. Since then, we've opened a few more.

  Steve Ells

  Simple, Ideas, Cooking

  "How Chipotle Became The Gold Standard Of Mexican Fast-Food" by Kal Gullapalli, www.businessinsider.com. January 21, 2011.

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• I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.

  Michelle Obama

  Asking, Recipes, Way

  Remarks by the First Lady in Address to the National Restaurant Association Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 13, 2010.

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• Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

  Jane Austen

  Flower, Garden, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Emma Woodhouse". "Emma", www.imdb.com. June 7, 1996.

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• I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

  Hugh Laurie

  Hate, Want, Dinner

  "Hugh Laurie peels 'The Oranges' and talks about happiness after 'House'". Interview with Thelma Adams, yahoo.com. October 5, 2012.

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• In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!

  Hunter Hayes

  Italian, Cities, Two

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• Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.

  Joe Bastianich

  Hate, Lazy, Different

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• Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Space, Transcendentalism

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.307, Courier Corporation

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• Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

  Mason Cooley

  Restaurants, Categories

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• I've never planned ahead.I just sort of go through life checking the menu of three meals that day. I never worry about tomorrow. It's only since I've gotten older that I've begun to wonder about time running out. Is it sufficient unto itself that I don't plan? Because maybe next Thursday won't come one day. And then, I'm concerned about that. But that's not uniquely the writer's concern, that's the concern of every middle-aged man who looks in the mirror.

  Rod Serling

  Running, Men, Mirrors

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