Calvin Trillin Quotes
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries.' And I guest starred on a show called 'Kickin' It' on Disney.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.
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ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.
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I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.
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Ayatollah Khamenei actually is not the most powerful person in Iran. He does not make nuclear policy. He does not make security policy. He is one voice among many and not even the most important voice by any means.When nuclear strategy is being discussed in Iran, he is not the dominant figure to make things happen. So I think this sense which he has created to a considerable degree by his own self-promotion has made him the center of attention when, in fact, the real center of activity is some place else.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
