"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."
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"His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning ."
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"Keep a good table and attend to the ladies."
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"Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all."
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"Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it."
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"Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight."
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"She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table."
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"For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new."
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"I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself."
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"And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food."
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"I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough."
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"Humorists always sit at the children's table."
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"I'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent"
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"We set the table, but no one ate."
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"Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life."
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"It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table."
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"Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me."
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"It's always a good idea to sit at the fun table."
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"King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer."
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"I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed."
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