"Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . ."

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Calvin Trillin

#Book Quotes #Phones Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As weird as it is, as much as I love Southern California, the reality is I'm going to be somewhere else next season.”
“Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.”
“It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.”
“Fully embrace the fact that you are enough just being you. It's so important for women to champion each other instead of competing against each other. Believe in yourself and believe in all of the women in your life. As females we are already strong but imagine if we all supported one another? What a world that would be.”
“The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.”
“Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land.”
“Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.”

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