Calvin Trillin Quotes
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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I thought I wanted to be a clown, because what would be better than making people laugh?
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The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
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I am glad I have given my family the life I wanted for them. That is my responsibility.
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I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
