Restaurants Quotes - Page 36

• I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.

  Rupert Murdoch

  People, News, Tables

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.

  Bill Murray

  Couple, Kids, Kitchen

  "Bill Murray: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.

  Jack Nicholson

  Want, Dinner, Chance

  "Jack Nicholson: 'I have a sweet spot for what's attractive to me'" by Dana Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2002.

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• Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.

  Michelle Obama

  School, Healthy Choices, Giving

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• Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

  Michelle Obama

  Together We Can, Healthy Choices, Helping

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• I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Holiday, Glasses

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• Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

  Rand Paul

  Government, Doe, Owners

  "Rand Paul, telling the truth". "Right Now" with David Weigel, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

  Katy Perry

  Dad, Giving, Church

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• I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.

  Matthew Perry

  Thinking, Guy, Would Be

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• Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

  Tom Peters

  Sneakers, Buzz, Today

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• Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Giving, Atheism, Pages

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Want, Fast Food, Hard

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• I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Thinking, Pigs, Want

  "Q&A: Gordon Ramsay dishes on 'Hell's Kitchen'". Access Hollywood Interview, www.today.com. March 25, 2008.

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• I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Running, Talent, Phenomenal

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• I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Running, Dad, Home

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• Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Hot, Looks, Week

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• My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.

  Rachael Ray

  Memories, Capes, Thumbs

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• I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

  Eric Ripert

  Menus

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• Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Brain, Soup, Motion Pictures

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Italian, Garden, Way

  A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, New York, Sleep

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1965). “This Side Of Paradise”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Museums, Average

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• And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Home, Night, Appreciate

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• Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with “The Moment”—that moment where you first walk into the bar or restaurant or coffee shop and scan the crowd and suddenly your heart stops and you say to yourself: oh, please—let it be him.

  Julie James

  Coffee, Heart, Bars

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.78, Penguin

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