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- Nov 07, 2020
Dinner Quotes
Dinner, memory, and the rituals around the table.
One quote recalls watching 'Monty Python' as a family ritual during dinner, while another admits preferring a quiet dinner and a game of Scrabble over a night out at bars or clubs. See Evening quotes for related themes.
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- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have or not to have kids, when to have them, and whether we working women can 'have it all' has been debated, discussed, and examined since the washing machine and the TV dinner began to free up many mothers to even consider leaving the home as a viable option.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
- Dinner Table
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised before the advent of DVD players in cars and iPads at the dinner table.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm only on Instagram, and it's under a ridiculous name, and I'm friends with, like, five people, all of whom I've had dinner with.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
He's perfect for anything. I would hire Hugh Jackman to come to my house and have dinner.
- Dinner Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.
- Nov 07, 2020
At dinner, I usually go off the chain a little bit and have whatever I want but within reason.
- Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
For dinner, I have at least four or five different vegetables of all colors: purple, orange, green and red. I eat as many colors as possible, including carrots, broccolini, asparagus, cauliflower, kale and more.
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- Nov 07, 2020