Calvin Trillin Quotes
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.Calvin Trillin
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
Yul Brynner -
Love can never be fully explained.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
Madi Diaz -
Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
Narendra Modi -
One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
Kate Forsyth -
I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
Larry Norman
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson -
Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
Victoria Azarenka -
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Walter Dean Myers -
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant -
I have never broken a contract in my career.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I could never take orders from anyone.
Gautam Adani
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
Naval Ravikant -
We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.
W. Averell Harriman -
I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
Carlton Cuse -
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth -
I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
Ioan Gruffudd -
I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
Kabir Bedi
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
Sergey Brin -
When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of the imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
Marcia Angell -
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin