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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

Food, Sometimes, Wine

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu

Great, Small, Nation

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Kids, Times

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali

Age, Wanted, Ambition

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson

Painting, Economic, Gain

Any cook should be able to run the country.
Vladimir Lenin

Country, Able, Run

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
Woody Allen

Tv, Suck, Frozen

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music, Insult, Both

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
Edmund Leach

Men, Food, Show

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.
Julia Child

Love, Nice, Someone

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Quentin Crisp

Sex, Stuff, Flavor

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Anton Chekhov

Woman, Young, Write

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness, Good, Bank

When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
Prince William

Time, Amazing, Help

I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things.
Kim Kardashian

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron

Good, Mother, Someone

And I don't cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.
Tiger Woods

Long, Either, Pizza

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
Alton Brown

Food, Words, Himself

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
Vladimir Lenin

Learn, State, Govern

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Michael Palin

Love, Great, Art

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.
Michelle Obama

Work, Night, Another

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.
Greta Garbo

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.
Chris Rock

Nice, Book, Table

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Jeanette Winterson

Alone, Live, Books

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
Robin Williams

Green, String, Cotton

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.
Heidi Klum

Love, Good, German

I like to cook things very slowly.
Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
Tori Amos

I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.
Curtis Stone

Big, Once, Monday

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
Emeril Lagasse

Age, Family, Great

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