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I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

Hugh Laurie

Hate, Want, Dinner

"Hugh Laurie peels 'The Oranges' and talks about happiness after 'House'". Interview with Thelma Adams, yahoo.com. October 5, 2012.

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I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.

Michelle Obama

Asking, Recipes, Way

Remarks by the First Lady in Address to the National Restaurant Association Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 13, 2010.

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If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

Jamie Oliver

Design, Support, Junk

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

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Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu.

Jacques Pepin

Mean, Tuna, Tomatoes

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I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

Chris Rock

Nice, Book, Tables

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Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

Eric Schlosser

Real, Taste, Cost

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The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

George Will

War, Men, Age

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For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.'

Douglas Rushkoff

Google, Finals, Add

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Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

Jane Austen

Flower, Garden, Thinking

"Fictional character: Emma Woodhouse". "Emma", www.imdb.com. June 7, 1996.

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"Would you like to see the menu?" he said. "Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?" [...] "Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?"

Douglas Adams

Body, May, Evening

"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2)". Book by Douglas Adams, October 1980.

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No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?

Eoin Colfer

Children, Order, Doubt

Eoin Colfer (2005). “Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3”, Miramax

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Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.

Lynne Truss

Simple, Skills, Icons

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When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.

Aziz Ansari

Secret, Trying, Burgers

"Aziz Ansari Interview". Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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One recent menu for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo consisted of orange glazed chicken, fresh fruit crepe, steamed peas and mushrooms, and rice pilaf. Sounds like the sort of thing you'd get at Windows on the World - if it still existed.

Ann Coulter

Mushrooms, Orange, Sound

Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.121, Crown Forum

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When I created Chipotle in 1993, I had a very simple idea: Offer a simple menu of great food prepared fresh each day, using many of the same cooking techniques as gourmet restaurants. Then serve the food quickly, in a cool atmosphere. It was food that I wanted, and thought others would like too. We've never strayed from that original idea. The critics raved and customers began lining up at my tiny burrito joint. Since then, we've opened a few more.

Steve Ells

Simple, Ideas, Cooking

"How Chipotle Became The Gold Standard Of Mexican Fast-Food" by Kal Gullapalli, www.businessinsider.com. January 21, 2011.

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Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?

Lynne Truss

Mean, Choices, Brain

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Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

Martin Amis

Shopping, Family And Friends, Novelists

Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.16, Random House

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Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

Erma Bombeck

Funny, Humorous, Food

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When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu

Guy Verhofstadt

Inspirational, Guests, Dinner

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The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

Jason Chaffetz

Doe, Sage, Protection

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In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.

Cat Cora

Boys, Night, Goes On

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The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and don't even look
like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they]
suddenly look like software.

Havoc Pennington

Simple, Two, Needs

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In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

Alice B. Toklas

Should, Culmination, Climax

Alice B. Toklas (1958). “Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present”

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I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

Gayle King

Thinking, Pleasure, Dishes

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Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

Auguste Escoffier

Food, Perfection, Attention

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