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 think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
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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 think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.
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I'd like to have a family.
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Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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The truth is that if you play on TV there is always a sponsor. There is no way around it. I've already passed on so much money I don't worry about it anymore.
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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
