I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.
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CALVIN TRILLIN The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just th... CALVIN TRILLIN As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. CALVIN TRILLIN There is no sincerer love than the love of food. CALVIN TRILLIN Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he... CALVIN COOLIDGE When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. CALVIN COOLIDGE After all, the chief business of the American people is business. CALVIN COOLIDGE The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with ... CALVIN COOLIDGE It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The... CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in the World can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than... CALVIN COOLIDGE If there has been any crime, it must be prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United Sta... CALVIN COOLIDGE I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. ... CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The tempt... CALVIN COOLIDGE The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill... CALVIN COOLIDGE Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existe... CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common tha... CALVIN COOLIDGE What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character t... CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than... CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common th... CALVIN COOLIDGE I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they... CALVIN COOLIDGE The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism. CALVIN COOLIDGE A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked a... JOHN CALVIN When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. CALVIN COOLIDGE No man ever listened himself out of a job. CALVIN COOLIDGE Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in it... JOHN CALVIN Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. CALVIN COOLIDGE Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead h... CALVIN COOLIDGE I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplis... CALVIN COOLIDGE