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As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.
It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.
You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.
I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
Eating well, being around the table with the family or friends or relatives - it doesn't get any better.
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
From the time I start prep to serving the food at the table, I like for the whole thing to be beautiful.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.
I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
There is a big dining table at In Sung hyung's house. That's our hangout spot, and we drink teas and chat.
Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.
I'm a bit of an attention seeker, so I'm always looking for a table or some height to get up on and dance.
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.
I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.
I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.
To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.
I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.
The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.
At the end of the day, there's always going to be younger, prettier girls but I know what I bring to the table.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.
I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.
Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.
All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.
I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor.
Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.
To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.