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 think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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There, in the high bright window he dreams, and seesWhat we are blind to,-we who mass and crowdFrom wall to wall in the darkening of a cloud.
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When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.
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Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.
