Calvin Trillin Quotes
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
Viktor Orban -
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Larry Wall -
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Edmund Spenser -
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
Kate Winslet -
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian -
It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
Tavi Gevinson
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
Fleur East -
Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
Jack Kingston -
Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
Carlene Carter -
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
Kate Williams -
I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
Eden Sher -
My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
Rakul Preet Singh
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
Gary David Goldberg -
Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
Victor LaValle -
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
Otis Blackwell -
I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
Olivia Williams -
I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
Laura Hillenbrand -
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
Ted Cruz
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
Larry Flynt -
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
Oscar Wilde -
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis -
The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.
Ann Maxwell -
When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers' ascent onto the world stage. In 1992, the Barcelona Olympics represented the unification of Europe. And when Rio plays host in 2016, it will reinforce the growing importance of Brazil and Latin America as a whole.
Eduardo Paes -
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
Calvin Trillin