Evan Esar Quotes
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I think that liberals need to grow up.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
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I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.
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The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.
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I don't know what my daughter will become.
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If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
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Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved.
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My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.
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One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.
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The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.
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My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.
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Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
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I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.
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There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.
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We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.
