Thai Quotes - Page 2

• Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Government, Survival, Important

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• The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Sex, Food

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• Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

  Tertullian

  Fire, Frying Pans, Frying

  Tertullian (1956). “De Carne Christi Liber: Treatise on the Incarnation”

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• It's just starting. I think it's going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food, and it's all been exploited. The Filipinos combined the best of all of that with Spanish technique. The Spanish were a colonial power there for 500 years, and they left behind adobo and cooking in vinegar - techniques that, applied to those tropical Asian ingredients, are miraculous.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Thinking, Years, Cooking

  "Andrew Zimmern: Filipino food is the 'next big thing'". Interview with Veronica Meewes, www.today.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Thai food ain't about simplicity. It's about the juggling of disparate elements to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord it's got to have a smooth surface but it doesn't matter what's happening underneath. Simplicity isn't the dictum here, at all. Some westerners think it's a jumble of flavours, but to a Thai that's important, it's the complexity they delight in.

  David

  Thinking, Simplicity, Musical

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• My greatest inspiration has to be a Thai lady called Kru Nam, 40, she is from an upper middle class family and degree educated who has chosen to dedicated her life to rescuing children. I met her just after she rescued 27 children, since then she has continued to rescue more children without money, influence and making connections.

  David Batstone

  Children, Inspiration, Class

  Source: forums.juniper.net

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• I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Judging, Chinese, Goes On

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

  Alan Bishop

  Effort, Break, Genre

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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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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• Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Talking, Insulting, Fusion

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

  Rita Moreno

  Color, Black, Indian

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Inspiration, School

  Time, September 11, 1995.

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• I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

  Ville Valo

  Spiritual, Country, Religious

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• Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.

  Channing Tatum

  Moving, Fighting, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I’ve heard 14 year old meth addicted thai prostitutes say more prescient things than the woman that was supposedly a “professor

  Tucker Max

  Years, Professors, Heard

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• I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

  Sean Patrick Flanery

  Later In Life, Training, Taekwondo

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

  Sean Patrick Flanery

  Years, Boxing, Everyday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  Spalding Gray

  Sleep, Climbing, Class

  "Fictional character: Spalding Gray". "Swimming to Cambodia", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

  John Larroquette

  Actors, Done, Broadway

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• I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

  Robert Cray

  Italian, Cooks, Vietnamese

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• I am very careful about what I eat, and I exercise pretty much every day, whether it be rock-climbing, running, Muay Thai, yoga, horse riding, stand-up paddleboarding, or plain and simple working out.

  Sebastian Roche

  Running, Horse, Yoga

  Interview with Robert Piper, nicheandnook.com. August 24, 2015.

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• Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Different, Three, Honest

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• One of the best things I found out about Detroit is that bears have started returning to the city. When bears are gentrifying your neighborhood and opening Thai restaurants, that's a poor neighborhood.

  Eugene Mirman

  Cities, Poor Neighborhoods, Detroit

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• There were stories coming out of Thailand that slave labor was being used to catch and process the seafood we eat. They were nearly all from Miramar. Because of reports of widespread labor abuses, several countries are now considering a ban on imports of Thai seafood.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Country, Slave Labor, Abuse

  "Thailand Tuna Plant Workers Win 'Unprecedented' Settlement". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, www.npr.org. March 5, 2016.

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