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'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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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 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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I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.
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Once you secure that border, then we can start doing an analysis of what we are going to do with all of the folks that got here illegally.
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A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
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My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?'
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I can see this, I suppose you could call it, aura of colors that words can't describe around living things. And when something dies the aura fades leaving something that's not easy to look at. It appears empty in a way that makes you feel empty too!
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Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
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The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.
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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
