Calvin Trillin Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
Nas -
They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
Adam Garcia -
My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
Ted Cruz -
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
Walt Mossberg
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
Laura Harring -
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Abraham Maslow -
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
T. Boone Pickens -
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
Nat King Cole -
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
Sallust -
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
Barton Gellman
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie -
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
Kara Swisher -
L.A. makes you feel ugly.
Rachel Weisz -
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
Tariq Ali -
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
Aaliyah
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Anthony Trollope -
All I am is what I'm going after.
Al Pacino -
I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
Carlene Carter -
I call The National my family, and I'll be doing that as long as I want to.
Bryce Dessner The National -
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
Brian Dennehy -
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
Calvin Trillin