Evan Esar Quotes
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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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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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The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
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The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.
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I could stand to lose some weight.
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Looking good kept me out of trouble. When I worked for Michael Alig, everybody was overdoing partying. It would take me so long to get ready, because I was never one of those girls that were naturally the cover of Vogue. I had to really work hard to look nice. I would take hours and hours to get ready. If you have high heels on, if you're dressed nice, you really can't be drunk or sloppy because it's dangerous. It's part of being a lady, so it really kept me out of trouble.
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We shouldn't need riot police at schools.
