Calvin Trillin Quotes
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
Olympia Snowe
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
Harrison Ford
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America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
Barry O'Farrell
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
Rand Paul
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
Taryn Manning
Boomkat
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This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.
James Bovard
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Because of her life, I've been able to say, 'If Oprah can make it, I can make it.' I look at Oprah and was saying to a friend, 'If you wanted to have a checklist for all the reasons why someone would give up or say, 'I'm not going to make it,' or, 'I'm not worthy,' she pretty much has had all of those things on her list.'
Kim Hawthorne
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas
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If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.
Bill Flores
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin
