Restaurants Quotes - Page 29

• There are certain things that make restaurants work and a certain kind of DNA that people who excel in restaurants need. But it's a lot like life, in the sense that you get out of it what you put into it.

  Joe Bastianich

  Dna, People, Needs

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• I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.

  Woody Allen

  Work, Chinese, Shallow

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• Colin Farrel was recently asked about prostitutes and he said, It's like ordering a pizza. Really? What restaurant is he going to? All I ever get is a pizza... I guess in some ways it is - when it's delivered, it's never quite as hot as you hoped it would be.

  Jay Leno

  Hot, Would Be, Never Quit

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• Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)

  Tom Waits

  Black, Chinese, Cameras

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• Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation?

  Demetri Martin

  Listening, Today, Conversation

  Twitter post from Oct 24, 2011

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• Did you know that the Jews invented sushi? That's right - two Jews bought a restaurant with no kitchen.

  Jackie Mason

  Two, Kitchen, Sushi

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• A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Heaven, Three, Tails

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Lobsters one of the only animals that have to put up with being alive in the restaurant. If you go to a steakhouse, folks - no cow tank.

  Richard Jeni

  Animal, Tanks, Lobster

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• [On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.

  Sally Stanford

  Sex, Dubious, Entering

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• Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Want, Intention, Results

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• Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Education, Taken, World

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• When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them Id never had pizza before, and theyd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. Its really fun.

  Misha Collins

  Fun, School, Kitchen

  "Date with an Angel: Supernatural's Misha Collins Answers Your Questions". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can be what they want to be. All I ever wanted was to be a good husband and father, a good chef, and to have my own restaurant. And the celebrity was never expected. Wouldn't have even dared dream of it. And here I am. So anyone's dreams can come true. And I'm very, very grateful for everything that's come my way. I thank everyone who enjoys what I do.

  Guy Fieri

  Dream, Country, Husband

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• I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.

  Arnold Palmer

  Country, Spring, Golf

  "Arizona 20 Years: Arnold Palmer" by Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I feel like we're all here on this planet, and intimacy is important. I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want to get beyond that thing of discussing how the weather is a bit better today than it was yesterday, and how this is a nice restaurant. I want to get to what are the problems, what's really going on. Are you in love? Are you in a lot of pain? What's really going on in your life? I'm interested in that area, whether it's on stage or in real life.

  Simon Amstell

  Love, Life, Pain

  "Simon Amstell Overshares". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Wine, Glasses, Wife

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• I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sexy, Art, Avid

  "Drew Barrymore on Making Wine, Cooking for Her Family, and Getting 'Swept Up' in the Food Movement". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. July 16, 2013.

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• I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

  Peter Capaldi

  Hate, Play, Meals

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• I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.

  Chris Pine

  Jobs, People, Hated

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• My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

  Carla Hall

  People, Kitchen, Tables

  "Top Chef Finalist Carla Hall Dishes on the Competition". Washington Post Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2009.

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• Restaurants are like having children: its fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Fun, Children, Boys

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• I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there's lots of barriers to success. There's a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It's very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.

  Tyler Florence

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  "Q&A With Tyler Florence, Host of the Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race". Interview with Sarah Bennett, www.dmagazine.com. November 30, 2012.

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• I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.

  David Morse

  Stars, Mean, Differences

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• Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is.

  Mario Batali

  Bombs, Meat, Balls

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• Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

  Julie Gonzalo

  Museums, Cities, Shopping

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