Evan Esar Quotes
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
Imelda May -
I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
Sam Hunt -
The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
Valentino Rossi -
There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
Madeleine Stowe -
I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
Ingvar Kamprad -
My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
Hailee Steinfeld
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
Dan Aykroyd -
'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
Ian Mckellen -
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
Garth Ennis -
Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
Karen Kain -
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
Aaron Sorkin -
The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.
Hansika Motwani
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I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.
R. Kelly -
The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.
Dakota Blue Richards -
I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
Edgar Winter -
Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.
Larry David -
You can not define being exactly on time.
W. Edwards Deming -
When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren’t many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity-a waste of precious time and effort.
Tad Williams
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Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.
Nolan Bushnell -
Balls to aspiration, it's a tosser's mirage.
Charlie Brooker -
I'm the only person in the entire world who has never see 'Dawson's Creek.'
Krysten Ritter -
Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!
Karen Handel -
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.
Evan Esar