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"You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it."
"If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu."
"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."
"I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written."
"The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table."
"I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table."
"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."
"And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure."
"In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies."
"The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast."
"Freedom, Truth, Honour you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other."
"If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell"
"While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table."
"Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table."
"A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin."
"There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science."
"Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table."
"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."
"I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive."
"The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears."