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- Perfume
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health food makes me sick.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
- Clean
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a source for humor.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020