Evan Esar Quotes
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I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.
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Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.
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I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.
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I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.
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The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.
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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
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If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.
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Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.
