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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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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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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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
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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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The dead never go to their own funeral.
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My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone bad,' a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.
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I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.
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I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.
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But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
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This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.
