Evan Esar Quotes
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who 'represent' a trend or ideology.
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What's important is that, come the general election, people think the right things of you. They think that you've got the right values and the right policies. And that you're the right kind of person to lead the country.
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There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.
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With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.
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Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
