Tables Quotes - Page 26

• I obviously am cognizant of the fact that being handsome gives me greater breadth of opportunity. I'd hope that what I bring to the table far surpasses just being handsome.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Opportunity, Giving, Handsome

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have food every day on the table, I have a family, friends, health - all the things without which it wouldn't matter how many roles I get to play.

  Penelope Cruz

  Play, Roles, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Men are the ones who often juggle back and forth for power. It is the women who bring humanity to the table - an understanding that beyond the jobs that men are fighting for, there are people out there really waiting for you to do something for life to go on. The only way all of this can happen effectively is if women are at the table as active participants, not as silent observers.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Jobs, Fighting, Men

  Source: progressive.org

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• What we really need to be open to is diversity itself, especially in a business environment. What you want is a plethora of ideas; you want people with different life experience, people with different work experience, people from different cultures to bring something to the table that you otherwise based on your own coming up, you yourself wouldn't have thought of.

  Corey Smith

  Ideas, People, Diversity

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• I should have my own show by now. Yeah. How many damn sitcoms does Kelsey Grammer need? How many more stupid Housewives do they need throwing tables and limbs at each other. Yeah, I guess I need to take off my artificial leg and throw it at Vanderpump. I like doing live shows - it's just getting to them that's a hassle.Doing films is fun too ... a good film ... but there's a lot of waiting around.

  Judy Tenuta

  Fun, Stupid, Waiting Around

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Our response has been, "Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table." That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

  Abdallah II

  Effort, Blame, Crisis

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

  Abdallah II

  Moving Forward, Class, Years

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• My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.

  Christina Aguilera

  Body, Way, Fat Girl

  "Christina Aguilera Hints at Justin Bieber Collaboration at American Music Awards". www.foxnews.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

  Malin Akerman

  Casts, Stuttering, Preps

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

  Madeleine Albright

  Hands, Goal, Sitting

  "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

  Madeleine Albright

  Believe, Mean, Order

  "Madeleine Albright: Hillary's job not a party" by MJ Lee, www.politico.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

  Tori Amos

  Eye, Player, Cards

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• 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.

  Paul Auster

  Pay, Way, Bread

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• Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.

  Simon Baker

  Guy, Needs, Chips

  "Simon Baker Talks MARGIN CALL, Occupy Wall Street, THE MENTALIST, and His Thoughts on DOCTOR STRANGE". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

  Lucille Ball

  Quilts, Hands, Looks

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• All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Giving, Judging

  "Republicans Spar Over Campaign Finance Reform in Debate". www.democracynow.org. January 7, 2000.

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• I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view.

  Glenn Beck

  Views, Choices, Asking

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• People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

  Max Beerbohm

  Dream, People, Night Terrors

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1968). “Around Theatres”

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• Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.

  Joe Biden

  Gorillas, Rooms, Social

  "Meet the Candidates" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. April 29, 2007.

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• It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Important, Speak, Moments

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• My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

  John Boehner

  Uncles, Growing Up, Dad

  John Boehner's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying.

  Elayne Boosler

  New Year, Memories, Vegas

  "Elayne Boosler Maps Comedy Heaven And Hell On New Year’s Eve" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Soccer, Art, Real

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• The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'

  Nolan Bushnell

  Children, Ideas, Parent

  "The Player" by Ethan Watters, www.wired.com. January 10, 2005.

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• I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

  David Byrne

  Talking, Records, Selling

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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