Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

Grown-up parties are so dull they make me want to throw a tantrum and hurl red wine on the nearest cream-damask armchair.

Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.

I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at parties difficult, so I choose not to go to parties.

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.

I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

There are times I have to diet 16 weeks at a go, and I had to miss out on stuff I love, like burgers and birthday parties.

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.

Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.

We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.

I'm not a huge L.A. fan, but I go there for the winter every year. We usually rent a house and have massive house parties.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.

It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out.

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

There's some jerks. There's some big egos. There are a few that think they're one of the Founding Fathers... in both parties.

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I used to sing and dance and perform with my sister at parties for 50p.

There's never been an entertainer that can take two warring parties and have both presidents stand on the stage and hold hands.

I actually didn't have a quincenera, but I did get to take part in one for my cousin. I've just never really been into parties.

In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

For dinner parties, I love making an easy cioppino using shrimp, mussels, clams, and a hearty fish that won't fall apart easily.

I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

Do I regret leaving Milan? I decided I needed a change. I needed to find new ideas, and that was the best thing for both parties.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.

It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.

Everyone from Pullman porters to hostesses at swank New York parties will tell me they always watch 'Miss Brooks' on Friday night.

The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.

I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He's a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.

Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.

The last thing that should come between two willing parties, one that wants to adopt and one that wants to find a home, is economics.

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

I never 'went Hollywood.' Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn't go the route of Hollywood parties.

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