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• There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Rays

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• The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.

  Steve McQueen

  Cat, Jumping, Effort

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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.

  Eric Bana

  Home, Scripts, Film

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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."

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Couple, Nice, Kids

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

  Jeff Bridges

  Reading, Guy, Trying

  "Jeff Bridges Is Making a Porno in The Amateurs". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. December 6, 2007.

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• 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.

  Nathaniel Fick

  Jobs, Military, Government

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• 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.

  Missy Elliot

  People, Laughing, Comedian

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• 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.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Thinking, Two

  "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• 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.

  Piper Perabo

  New York, Nightlife, Ideas

  "Piper Perabo’s Culinary Affairs". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 16, 2012.

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• 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."

  Eva Mendes

  People, Bread, Baskets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Father, Dinner, Way

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• 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.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Ideas, People

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• 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.

  Tony Hsieh

  Stress, Roof Over Your Head, Needs

  "Big Think Interview With Tony Hsieh". Interview with Peter Hopkins, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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

  Tony Benn

  Encouragement, People, League

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• 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.

  Anita Roddick

  Men, Firsts, Language

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• 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.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Everyday, Stale, Shakes

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• 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.

  Pier Giorgio Frassati

  Struggle, Angel, Fighting

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• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Soldier, Together, May

  Quoted in Harold Macmillan, The Blast of War: 1939 - 45 (1968) (entry for 16 Nov. 1943)

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

  George Carlin

  Restaurants, Reservations, Found

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• 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.

  Bob Blumer

  Sex, Drinking, Wine

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• 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.

  Jamie Cullum

  School, Thinking, Add

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• 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.

  Billy Connolly

  Coffee, Talking, Lunch

  "Billy Connolly Is Fido!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 17, 2007.

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• 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.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Thinking, Compassion, Important

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• 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.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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