Restaurants Quotes - Page 16

• Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

  Lauren Conrad

  Class, Acting, Sides

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• If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Finding Yourself, Hotel, Restaurant Business

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• I don't like people who are hypocritical, who pretend to be nice, particularly in show business when they're nice on camera, and then off camera they're absolutely appalling to the makeup people, or the waitress in a restaurant, you know? I don't like - I can't bear those kind of people. So I like people who are, you know, up front in your face.

  Simon Cowell

  Nice, Makeup, People

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 17, 2006.

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• I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Reservations, Staring, I Can

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• It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

  Louis C. K.

  Awkward, Kind

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• The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

  Larry David

  Lunch, Hot, Normal

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• The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi.

  Paula Deen

  Kids, Thinking, Squirrels

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• I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Queues, My Friends

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Jobs, Drama, Chaos

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• It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Space, Work Out, Difficult

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• Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Great Restaurants, Littles

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• Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

  Beth Ditto

  Crazy, Order, Special

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.

  Hilary Duff

  Sometimes, My Favorite, Malls

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• There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

  Jenny Eclair

  Knives, Breakfast, Down And

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• I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it’ll recede. In fact, I know it will. That’s life on planet earth. And I’m okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Airports, Special

  "Tina Fey InBBAACCSS1‘Esquire’: The Thinking Man Wants To F*** Megan Fox". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2010.

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• I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, "I have a really great idea for a restaurant."

  Bobby Flay

  Thinking, Ideas, Really Great

  "Bobby Flay on Good Fast Food and Bad Restaurant Ideas". Interview with Andrew Del-Colle, www.menshealth.com. March 11, 2011.

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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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• My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.

  Bobby Flay

  Space, Parks, Location

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• When I’m hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.

  Bobby Flay

  Want, Hiring, Cooks

  "Bobby Flay Talks Battling Alton Brown And Giada De Laurentiis On ‘Food Network Star,’ Loving HBO’s ‘Girls’ & Angry Bobby Flay". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

  Bobby Flay

  Thinking, People, Design

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• 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.

  Bobby Flay

  New York, Would Be, Attention

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• The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

  Eva Gabor

  Average, Relax, Attention

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• My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

  Lady Gaga

  Father, Gains, Pounds

  "Lady Gaga Discusses Weight Gain, Reveals Culinary Guilty Pleasures". Interview with Elvis Duran, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Doors, Two

  Interview with Michael Sheen, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 13, 2010.

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• I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Fun, Food, Cooking

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