Calvin Trillin Quotes

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

Calvin Trillin

Recitation: by Male by Female

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PlacePerfumeFirst AmendmentFirst

One wrong move, and you destroy your career.

Joel Edgerton

YouCareerWrongDestroyMoveYour

My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.

Andrew Card

WomenChildrenThoughtLovedEnough

To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.

John Walters

WorkBetterOthersMakeMostLives

A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.

John Wozniak

GreatSongPlayNeverWhich

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Tom G. Palmer

EqualityPeopleMoralSome People

So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it, but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.

Mitchell Baker

GoodBusinessControlInternetView

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Mitt Romney

GrowthBusinessJobChampionSmall

I've been playing and singing music since I was three or four years old. I was playing guitar, playing the piano.

Joseph David-Jones

MusicSingingGuitarThreeOldFour

I studied photography in high school, and straight away, I knew it was something I was interested in.

Brooklyn Beckham

SchoolHigh SchoolPhotographyHigh

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.

Sylvester McCoy

RelaxDownThingsSitContemplate

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Twyla Tharp

ThinkYouAudienceFoolishArrogant

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

Thomas Sowell

HatePeopleBlameProblemsFollowers

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