Restaurants Quotes - Page 39

• Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.

  Paul Newman

  Memories, Book, Grateful

  "Nightline's Last Interview With Paul Newman". ABC News interview, abcnews.go.com. May 2007.

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• I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

  Will Self

  Art, Apology, Cake

  2001 Feeding Frenzy.

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• There's not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who is eating in the restaurant.

  Julia Gillard

  Waiting, Tables, Eating

  "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.

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• In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Real, Character

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

  Alexander Wang

  Memories, Would Be, My Family

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• Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Records

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• A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.

  Criss Jami

  Strong, Kings, Food

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.55, Criss Jami

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• When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

  Eva Zeisel

  Mother, Children, Airports

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• Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.'

  Noureen DeWulf

  Iphone, Apps, Ask Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

  Tom Waits

  Years, Rays, Jukebox

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

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• I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Worry, Unpredictable

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• I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.

  Monte Irvin

  Sports, Baseball, Teacher

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• I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.

  Tony D'Souza

  Morning, Long, Guy

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• In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.

  Steve Leveen

  Reading, Opportunity, Land

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.

  Masa Takayama

  Sushi, Too Much, Chef

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• Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

  Masa Takayama

  Magazines, Today, Firsts

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• I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.

  Teddy Sheringham

  People, Giving, Monkeys

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• Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets.

  Enver Masud

  Military, Islamic, Mean

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• The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Christmas, Easter, Home

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• This is what makes me happy: ...Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer ... An evening in bed with a good book. ... A good night's sleep ... As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy.

  Art Buchwald

  Happiness, Good Night, Book

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• What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC is being cruel in the extreme. I am calling for a boycott of all KFC restaurants until my friends at PETA tell me that you have agreed to be kinder in your practices.

  Pamela Anderson

  Years, Practice, Kfc

  "Pamela Anderson takes on KFC", www.cnn.com. October 17, 2003.

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• Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.

  Thomas Keller

  Passion, Cooking, Gaps

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• I admit I love clothes and I buy clothes. But they sit in my closet. I like a pair of comfy pants, flip flops and a t- shirt. And when we pick a restaurant, my criteria is: Where can I wear this?.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Clothes, Pants, Pairs

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• I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Sadness, Rooms, Excitement

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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