Evan Esar Quotes
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I am a feminist - I just think the label reflects my beliefs - but, you know, we say 'Rookie' is a website for teenage girls, not a feminist website for teenage girls. That's not because I'm not proud to call myself a feminist, but when you're calling attention to a project, you can very easily be pigeonholed by choosing certain identifiers.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
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Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
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There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'
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We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.
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I don't have time for these clowns. I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity. They lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then look at me and they say 'I can't process it'. Well no, and you never will. Stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show.
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I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music.
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I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist.
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There is a growing interest in team ownership and promoting sports beyond cricket in India. I always felt it is important to encourage other sports, especially those that bring communities together and promote active lifestyles to Indian youth.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking. Whether it be around my dinner table or on the street or somebody reading the New York Post.
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Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.
