Calvin Trillin Quotes
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
Calvin Trillin
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
Macaulay Culkin
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
Larry Holmes
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
Ted Shackelford
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Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
Walt Mossberg
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
Zadie Smith
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
Sam Rockwell
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
Earl Weaver
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
Natasha Richardson
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
Mahesh Babu
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
Malcolm McDowell
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
Valerie Harper
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
Carlos Slim
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
E. O. Wilson
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Salomon Brothers, E. F. Hutton, Shearson, Lehman, Smith Barney... all these firms disappear, and the Street just rolls on.
James P. Gorman
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I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.
Elizabeth McCracken
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
Irv Kupcinet
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I think fashion takes itself way too seriously. It's just fashion, people. It's just clothes. It should be frivolous and fun. You're not meant to see it as church and pray to a blouse.
Jeremy Scott
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
Calvin Trillin
