Evan Esar Quotes
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.
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It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.
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She gave the most stirring speeches, ... and she was never afraid to ask for money. Once when I was speaking at a rally, she grabbed the mike and told me to be more forceful in my fund-raising pitch. The crowd loved it; I think we raised $90,000 that day.
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The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.
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Nature doesn't make long speeches.
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Similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.
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It's interesting because I laugh and tell people when I give speeches, ' I know what y'all think, oh we love Ed, but he's kinda stuck up or he's kinda this or he's kinda that.'
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When I was in high school, people would ask me what I wanted to do, and I would always say I wanted to 'lead marches and give speeches.'
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You have to be local. You have to focus on your local members of Congress.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
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To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.
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I believe strongly that we need a finance industry that is good for the economy, and I don't think anybody would argue that during the eight years leading up to the Great Recession, a lot of bets were made and risks taken that weren't good for the economy.
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And if it turns out that she’s the one, no matter what, remember what you’re fighting for, even if it feels like you’re the only one fighting sometimes.
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I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose the good things. I choose the happy, healthy things. I don't choose the bad, unhealthy, unhappy things.
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You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.
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Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?
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The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.
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Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.
