#dinner party

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. ↗

— Simon Hoggart

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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. ↗

— Ina Garten

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I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

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The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework. ↗

— Donna Shalala

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I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great. ↗

— Todd English

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I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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