Erica Jong Quotes
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I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.
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My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.
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I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.
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And you can't go, 'There's a hair in my Jell-O. I'd like to send this back. Can I see the cook, please?' The cook is a big dude named Bubba Joe.
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When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.
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Come cook food with me and do nothing.
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My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.
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My wife has to be the worst cook. I've got the only dog who begs for alka-seltzer.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.
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We used to grind our own wheat and cook rabbits and kangaroos.
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The planet will continue to cook.
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The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.
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When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
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[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.
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I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.
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Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.
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In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.
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A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
