Evan Esar Quotes
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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Acting is very immediate.
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There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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To relax, I do yoga and meditate and do little math problems, and it's fun to check that part of your brain off and turn on a different part.
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Laughing brains are more absorbent.
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I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.
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A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
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Deep down, you know what you want, and you should go for it.
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Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.
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I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
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Every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience. (p. 171)
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When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.
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This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.
