Invited Quotes - Page 13

I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.

Taylor Swift

Nice, Party, Kids

"Taylor Swift: The Single Life". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. January 17, 2012.

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As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

Pete Townshend

Jobs, Gun, Men

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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

Calvin Trillin

Wise, Kitchen, Preparation

Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

Andy Warhol

Party, Home, Commercial Art

Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

Zig Ziglar

Teach, Salesman

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Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.

William Gibson

President, Vices, Shooting

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You are constantly invited to be what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

Sinead O'Connor

Wedding, People, Complaining

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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

Marilyn Monroe

Inspiring, Play, Piano

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I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Birthday, Care, Guests

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We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Jeff Bezos

Success, Jobs, Business

"Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Buffalo Bill

Tails, Found, Lodges

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History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

Frank Gaffney

Military, War, Army

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In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

Marc Garneau

Hands, Three, Arms

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Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

Germaine Greer

Hotel, Has Beens, Corridors

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I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

Hunter Hayes

Couple, Years, Parent

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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 get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.

Charlie Hunnam

Premieres

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I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.

Nick Mancuso

Feet, Years, Fluffy

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

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I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

Marilyn Monroe

Inspiring, Cities, People

Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.70, Taylor Trade Publishing

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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

Oscar Wilde

Party, Speak No Evil, Cocktails

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Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

Ruth Reichl

Food, Thinking, House

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We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Henry David Thoreau

Who We Are, Authenticity

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In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.

Robin Jones Gunn

Night, Mutiny, Pits

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The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

Shan Sa

Moon, Dust, Sky

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