Restaurants Quotes - Page 17

• Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

  Hunter Hayes

  Guitar, Louisiana, World

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• I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.

  Werner Herzog

  Potato Chips, Potatoes, Despise

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• As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Xenophobia, Racism, People

  "Mapping the Nation". Book edited by Gopal Balakrishnan and Benedict Anderson, 1996.

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• I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

  David Hockney

  Cities, America, London

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• The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.

  LL Cool J

  Grateful, Giving, Secret

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• At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

  Hugh Jackman

  Business, Drama, School

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• I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

  Norah Jones

  Clubs, Jazz, Mickey

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• In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

  Norah Jones

  Weekend, College, Best Practices

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• One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

  Alan King

  Dinner, Life Is, Said

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• When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Jobs, Dad, Dust

  "Palin on DHS employee running a hate site: This is 'stupidity on steroids, Obama administration!'". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. August 23, 2013.

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• You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Kids, Eating Together, Games

  "Interview With a True Original, Emeril Lagasse". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Running, Philosophy, Wine

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• I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Guy, Tvs, Chef

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• When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Stay Strong, Fun, Cease

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• Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Book, May, Tvs

  "Interview With a True Original, Emeril Lagasse". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Children, Educational, Responsibility

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• The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Years, Three, World

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• When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Giving Up, Firsts, Failing

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• My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Airports, Hotel Lobby, Freedom Of Speech

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.189, Vintage

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• Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

  Jet Li

  Art, Stars, Two

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• If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Want, Private Life, Knows

  "Marina And The Diamonds Talks ‘Electra Heart,’ Beyonce, Homoerotic Video". Interview with Noah Michelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.

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• Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants; they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for performers to get hot food after the show.

  Ginger Rogers

  Grateful, Chinese, Hot

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

  David Lee Roth

  Real, Doors, Chinese

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• Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

  Helen Rowland

  Inspirational, Taken, Flavor

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• Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

  Paul Ryan

  Business, Hair, Cities

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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