Evan Esar Quotes
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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I've got tons more stuff to do.
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You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.
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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
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I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.
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Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
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Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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The corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.
