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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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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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I was scared to fly for a long time.
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
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Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
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One should continue of course with dignity to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness, because as long as one was alive one was not dead -obviously, decided Mrs. Fisher, and development, change, ripening, were life.
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Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.
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Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
