“Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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“Because I don’t do things in halves, Mom. Especially when it comes to love.”
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“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.”
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Dress to Kill (1998)
Source: Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill
Context: I had to chat up girls, and I'd only tagged them before. I didn't have the verbal power to be able to say, "Susan, I saw you in the classroom today. As the sun came from behind the clouds, a burst of brilliant light caught your hair, it was haloed in front of me. You turned, your eyes flashed fire into my soul, I immediately read the words of Dostoevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, 'I fancy you.' " But no! At 13, you're just going, " 'Ello, Sue. I saw you in the room... I've got legs, have you? Oh yeah... Do you like bread? I've got a French loaf. [mimes smacking her with the loaf and dashing off] Bye! (I love you!)"
“The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.”
“Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.”
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“I have your word?”
“You trust my word?”
“You’re an idealistic fool. Of course.”
Source: Faefever
“That wasn't your mom in you—that was your
dad.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You