Restaurants Quotes - Page 35

• Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through town, sometimes with our horns. And we'd walk by past an Irish bar. And you'd stand outside and check out the music. And Bird would go in and sit in with these traditional Irish musicians. Then we'd past a Greek restaurant and we'd hear that. And Charles "Bird" Parker would go sit in with those guys. He was just listening to everything, reacting to everything.

  Jon Gordon

  Past, Men, Guy

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• Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.

  Pico Iyer

  Medicine, Kyoto, Santa Barbara

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

  Scott Adams

  Sometimes, Draws, Persons

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• I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.

  Malin Akerman

  Bars, Want, Type

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Winning, Immigration

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• I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Jobs, Interesting, Research

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• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Awkward, Hearing

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• The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

  Kevin Bacon

  Business, Next Day, People

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• If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

  Brigitte Bardot

  People, Meals, Staring

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• I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Waiting In Line, Lines, Tickets

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• Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

  Mario Batali

  Skills, Satisfaction, Fulfillment

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• Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

  Mario Batali

  Hate, Dumb, Different

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• I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

  Anthony Bourdain

  School, Thinking, Small Numbers

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• If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Humility, Restaurant Business, Ifs

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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• I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Would Be, Stories, Misery

  "The Omnivore’s Agenda: An Interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2010.

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• 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Moving, Philadelphia

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• There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Military, Home, People

  "The Omnivore’s Agenda: An Interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November, 2010.

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• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  Ed Bradley

  Mother, Jobs, Second Chance

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• The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

  Richard Branson

  Funny Things, People, House

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

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• So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.

  Alton Brown

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

  Julie Burchill

  Pigs, Doors, Dinner

  "Chill factors". www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Communication, Years, Games

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• I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

  David Byrne

  Talking, Records, Tables

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.

  Herman Cain

  Association, Falsely Accused, Sexually

  "Cain On Sexual Harassment Charge: 'Totally Baseless And Totally False'". Interview with Jenna Lee, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

  Herman Cain

  Kings, Talking, Principles

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