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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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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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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Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
