Evan Esar Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I can't work without music.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.
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I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.
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If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.
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It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!'
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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You can find me in the frozen mood section.
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The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
