Evan Esar Quotes
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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I did a voice for this video game called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun. I had a great time, especially since I could show up in PJs and not have to worry about how I looked.
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For me he's just a hoax. It's empty. It's not interesting. It's dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of - is all the critics' darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable.
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My body and my will are one.
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I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.
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All I've ever wanted is to be normal.
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The real mariachis in Mexico are singers like Agustin Lara and Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete - the Golden Era of Mexican Filmmaking. Mariachis sing very soft and very beautiful. That's old-school mariachi. They are caressing the songs.
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I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.
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To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.
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You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
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My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.
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I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
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You get energy from other people, so hang out with energetic people.
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Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
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The best way I knew how was to give 110% and want it more than them, and walk on the court and every moment of the match feel like it was the end of the world, in a sense. So that worked for me in a lot of ways. There were times that it hurt me, but for the most part, it helped me.
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I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
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Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.
