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Quote by Calvin Trillin
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mil

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you cant get rid of. – Calvin Trillin

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I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadnt meant my answers literally. – Calvin Trillin

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Imagination
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Calvin Trillin
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. – Calvin Trillin

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Food
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Calvin Trillin
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I joke around a lot about the manic times because theyre funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature. – Patty Duke

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Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. – Ronald Reagan

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Its interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. Did your Bond do that? Yes mine did! So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school. – Jane Seymour

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I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac. In age, we put out another sort of perspiration,—gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), “Fate,” The Conduct of Life

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The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes
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When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck

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It is not worth singing for ourselves; it is nicer if two people sing together. Then more people: hundreds, thousands, until the huge Harmony can be heard, in which we can all be just one, indeed. Then will we be able to say: – Zolt

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