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Calvin Trillin Quotes

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 5, 1935

Topics

Me Writing You Place Call Might

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.

Interesting Mystery Know Never Would

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

Challenges Important Risk Measurement

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

Yourself Win Argument Convincing

I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.

Matthew Heineman

Government Law Hands Own Fail Take

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

Love Good Mind You Wrong Young

It's one thing for someone to travel over to Syria and Iraq and come back. But, boy, it's a lot easier if they activate someone who's already here.

Travel Someone Back Boy Over Here

I can do a backflip on the spot. I learned how from watching 'Ninja Turtles' movies as a kid. Whenever the Turtles got in trouble with their teacher, Master Splinter, he'd make them practice backflips as punishment - and I was so focused on becoming one of the Turtles that I taught myself how to do one, too.

Teacher Myself Practice I Can Movies

We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands.

Change People Decisions Political

I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.

Mind Person Kind Mean Out Seek

I love heels. I remember the first time I saw a pair of heels my mum said: 'You're not wearing those. They're too high!'

Dionne Bromfield

Love Time Remember You Said High

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

I Am People Survive Know Prayers

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley

Beauty Grief Shadow Pain Mind Gift

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