Evan Esar Quotes
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
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I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'
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The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
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Instagram is just a highlight reel... Ten percent of the time, Chan and I have a lot of fun. Ninety percent, we're really boring.
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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
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I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.
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I'm thankful for all the support I've received over the years.
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There will be a Skype movie soon... someone will crack the code, and it will be great. Then, there'll be 30 Skype movies, and we'll be like, 'Oh, that's boring.'
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I think natural fibers look better over time. The more you wear them, they look even better.
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I've avoided the press and a lot of stuff that would have made me more visible just because it's not my style.
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'I'm no preacher but I can tell you this-the lives that people lead are driving them crazy and their insanity comes out in the way they drive.'
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.
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For a long time growing up, I thought that everything happens for a reason and it's kind of already written. But as I've grown and learned various things, I think that the most important moment is the one that you're in, and that's the only moment that matters, that you can really control. The future is unknown, and the past is history.
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Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
