Evan Esar Quotes
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I don't watch TV.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
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Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.
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Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.
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I can't work without music.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.
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The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
