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I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!
Sylvia Rivera
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A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.
Jeffrey Stepakoff
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My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.
Lance Armstrong
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Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.
Neville Cardus
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Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.
Jean Sibelius
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
Oscar Wilde
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A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.
Robert Breault
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Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.
Robert Stack
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We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.
Dorothy Malone
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Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
Knute Rockne
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The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil
Elsa Maxwell
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Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.
Mick Jagger
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Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.
Bill Blass
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I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.
Dorothy Parker
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We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
Dean Koontz
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Have you ever noticed it for some reason you want to feel completely out of step with the rest of the world, the only thing to do is sit around a cocktail lounge for the afternoon?
Lizabeth Scott
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Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.
Edgar Guest
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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them.
Rand Paul
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When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.
Bernard DeVoto
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I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.
Tom Ford
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A cocktail will never be better than its cheapest ingredient.
David A. Embury
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Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
Elsa Maxwell
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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Will Rogers
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Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.
Maurice Bowra
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Shrimps ought to stay small and curled up in their cocktail sauce, if you ask me.
Aya Nakahara
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Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
Terry Pratchett
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It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.
Jerzy Kosinski
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As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.
Bobby Sherman
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The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.
Tony Parsons
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You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.
Bruce Davison
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Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
Jacob T. Schwartz
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I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.
Phyllis Diller
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“You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.”
Robin Roberts
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Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.
Phyllis McGinley
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I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.
Liz Garbus
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Trust me, true?" Butch barked a laugh. "Last time you said that i ended up with a vampire cocktail, remember?
J.R. Ward
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I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
Vera Wang
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My husband would say my signature dish is pasta with a tin of tuna plonked on top. So, no. Although I make a good bangers and mash. I have been known to stick cocktail umbrellas in it, take a photo and send it to James upstairs with a text saying, 'Your food's ready'.
Joanna Page
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In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.
Barbara Holland
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Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat." -Jace, pg.241-
Cassandra Clare
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If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
Marisha Pessl
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Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.
Ted Allen
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The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.
Hal Boyle
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Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
John Podhoretz
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A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.
P. J. O'Rourke