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“I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.”

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Author:Eric Bana

“I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“I saw so many kids 22, 19, with holes the size of a dime and they're dead. It's a gunshot and of course those kids thought they were as tough as nails, they never expected to be dead but they're gone. It's kinda nice to walk out of the County Coroner's Office with a couple of sayings, you know? "You're not so tough being dead on a morgue table."”

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Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and finally I said "all right, I want you guys to organize a reading and I want you to be there to see how terrible this is not going to work at all", so we had a table like this, and read the script, and it was just great.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.”

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Author:Nathaniel Fick

“I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.”

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Author:Missy Elliot

“I have two kids who were like me, we get out of bed feeling good, and the other two would sit at the breakfast table and grumble. I think it's born into us. I usually wake up feeling pretty good. Looking forward to the day.”

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Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I really like the idea of restaurant life, especially in New York where everyone has small apartments - that restaurant culture where you sit at a table for a long time and the afternoon goes by and you're kind of living there. I like that more than nightlife.”

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Author:Piper Perabo

“When the bread basket comes to the table and I have a bite, people are like, "Oh, you eat bread?" I say, "Oh, my God, of course I eat bread. I'm human."”

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Author:Eva Mendes

“I've been really opinionated my whole life. I was raised to be opinionated. I was raised to debate at the dinner table - my father demanded it - and you had to be able to debate in a confident and clear way.”

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Author:Jeanine Tesori

“I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.”

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Author:Talib Kweli

“If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.”

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Author:Tony Hsieh

“Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.”

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Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.”

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Author:Tony Benn

“Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.”

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Author:Anita Roddick

“If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others, it is stale and its not worth it.”

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Author:Massimo Vignelli

“I urge you with all the strength of my soul to approach the Eucharistic Table as often as possible. Feed on this Bread of the Angels from which you will draw the strength to fight inner struggles.”

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Author:Pier Giorgio Frassati

“You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table.”

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Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules.”

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Author:Bob Blumer

“Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.”

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Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.”

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Author:Jamie Cullum

“The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you're a zombie. And you're talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.”

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Author:Billy Connolly

“I'm all for cafeteria religion. I think there's nothing wrong with cafeterias - I've had some great meals at cafeterias. I've also had some horrible meals, so it's important to pick the right things. Take a heaping helping of compassion and mercy, and leave the intolerance on the table.”

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Author:A. J. Jacobs

“I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.”

“Food is such an important part of our lives, and sometimes we tend to diminish the importance of that, because we rely on conveniences or because our lives are so complicated. We forget about those moments that we can actually share around the table with our family, with our friends, with our loved ones.”

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Author:Thomas Keller

“Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.”

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Author:Keith Rabois

“It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.”

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Book:ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

“At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.”

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Author:Jakob Nielsen

“The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.”

“Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.”

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Author:Gerhard Schroder

“I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit; There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and 'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire; Sit close and draw the table nigher; Be merry and drink wine that is old, A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold.”

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Author:John Fletcher

“I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.”

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Author:John P. Marquand

“God is in the midst of us, or rather we are in the midst of him; wherever we are he sees us and touches us: at prayer, at work, at table, at recreation.”

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Author:Claude de la Colombiere

“I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.”

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Author:Pierce Brosnan

“For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life story is always more compelling than most ads in magazines and most commercials and reality TV and all the stuff we're sold and told is valuable.”

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Author:Victoria Mahoney

“I do think prayer is powerful and it is not to be diminished. Some of us who are struggling to put food on the table and are wondering where the next paycheck is coming from or have dangerous health situations and they don't have access to appropriate care do pray - do pray for yourselves and for others.”

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Author:Ashley Judd

“Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“My advice to any filmmaker would be to figure out what it is that you bring to the table. What makes you different? What is your voice?”

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Author:Megan Griffiths

“We don't really have any that protect the food supply from farm to table. We have a food safety system that's piecemeal, largely divided between two agencies that don't talk to each other very much. Neither agency can enforce regulations from the farm to the table.”

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Author:Marion Nestle

“Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.”

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Author:Marion Nestle

“We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were being grown in the United States, sent to Mexico for packing, and then sent back. I mean, they had no idea that our food chain worked like this.”

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Author:Marion Nestle

“Usually, you know, you're at a table and you're the only woman, you've got this idea, you finally speak up - I mean, I've been in some settings where every head turns toward me and then they all turn away as if I've never spoken. Which I think happens when whatever I said was so out of the blue, or so awkward, that they just didn't know how to respond.”

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Author:Mitchell Baker

“Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. Period. The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does. And who he has at the table. And what he does to change the world - that's what's important.”

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Author:Danny Glover

“For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the same psychic muscle (the Imagination), and working in one medium refreshed my appetite for the others.”

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Author:Peter Blegvad

“When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.”

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Author:Pharoahe Monch

“Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .”

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Author:Andrew Zimbalist

“I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think thats a role that we should allow.”

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Author:Pete Earley

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