William H. Calvin Quotes
Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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A day with my kids is the best day.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom.
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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
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How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?
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There are about 100 Aboriginal communities in Australia, and I'm trying to visit as many as possible to learn as much as I can.
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Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
