"The food in such places is so tasteless……" — Calvin Trillin
"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out."
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73 Quotes by Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin has 73 quotes on this site.
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Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and…
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Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
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Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser…
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The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.
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"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't…
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The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of…
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Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.
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Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.
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I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody…
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It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness…
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Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
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When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he…
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More Associate Quotes
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For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and…
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It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong,…
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a…
— Edmund Burke
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An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
— Fred Allen
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I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with…
— Dave Chappelle
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There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're…
— Diablo Cody
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Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences of…
— Richard Bandler
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Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.
— Thomas Paine
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Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task…
— Steve Pavlina
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O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with…
— George Carlin
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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to…
— Tony Robbins
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