David Levien Quotes
If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
Quotes to Explore
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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
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Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
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The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.
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I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.
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Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.
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As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
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Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.
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Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.
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I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.
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I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES.
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A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
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Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.
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... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
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All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and fear. In those early years, I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from within myself whatever emotional resources I needed to go wherever I was headed. As a result, for years, I became a boy who lived almost totally within himself.
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If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
