Calvin S. Hall Quotes
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.
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It's like a pylon.
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
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I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.
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Gentlemen, start your egos.
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In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
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I'd like to have a family.
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Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.
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I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.
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I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
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Anytime someone asks me to look at a new house with them, I'm like, 'Yes!'
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A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren't true friends in the first place.
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If this cycle is going to continue, and it looks like the 2007 World Cup is going to be played under it, we'll have to adapt to it.
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An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
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When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to be a musician, because of that fact.
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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
