Evan Esar Quotes
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.
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Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers, inside and outside Europe, succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
