David Levien Quotes
If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
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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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I've played in games as short as 45 minutes, or as long as three hours.
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
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Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon, and as such is very difficult to define because there are exceptions to every conceivable rule.
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As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
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If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
