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• Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Confused, Organization, People

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• I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'

  Neil Gaiman

  Lunch, People, Say Anything

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• The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

  Judith Martin

  Civilization, Television, Dinner

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• Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

  Confucius

  Mistake, Moving

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• Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view...Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Honesty, Views, Being Honest

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• I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

  Meek Mill

  Hard Work, Artist, Worry

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• John McCain will follow the fanatics to their caves in Pakistan or to the gates of hell. What Obama wants to do is give them a place setting at the table.

  Mike Huckabee

  Giving, Pakistan, Caves

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.politico.com. September 3, 2008.

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• I really don't want to thank my wife because I could be bussing tables at the Daily Grill right now if not for her. Jesus, what a gig that'd be.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Jesus, Wife, Want

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• Bill Sofield has the ability to understand the architecture of a space and how to utilize it in the most beautiful way. He can create completely different styles for his clients based on who they are and what their taste is. Our efforts have always been collaborative, and I value what he brings to the table architecturally and aesthetically.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Space, Effort

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• It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Facts, Electrons

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, Basic Books

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• Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.

  Clinton Smith

  Party, Flower, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• We need to address the economic issues around the kitchen table, and if people want a more high-minded politics and want to move our country forward, go on to martinomalley.com and help my campaign move our country moves.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Moving, Issues

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

  John Mulaney

  Rooms, Sometimes, Mainstream

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

  Danny Fox

  Writing, Hands, Want

  "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

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• For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.

  Paul Auster

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I’m an actor who’s accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.

  Demian Bichir

  Fearless, Risk, Directors

  "The Tarantino Actor". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2016.

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• If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Reading, Talking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of the day worldwide? Or next door? Or in political or medical discourse? Please. That idea just makes me want to crap on a table at a very fancy restaurant.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Character, Doors, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every time I hear that somebody died I think of their body, on a steel table in a morgue somewhere. I think of how they can do nothing about it.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Thinking, Steel, Body

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

  Biz Stone

  Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.

  Karen Elson

  Taken, Thinking, Dancing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for "house" or "table" or "lamp" are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world.

  Hassan Blasim

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  War, Shopping, Everyday Things

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Thinking, Average, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the specter of famine, people are free to fetishize heirloom tomatoes and worry about the provenance of what sits on their dinner tables.

  Annalee Newitz

  Gmos, Agriculture, Worry

  Source: therumpus.net

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