Evan Esar Quotes
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
Venus Williams -
I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
Gail Sheehy -
Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
Jack White The White Stripes -
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Haim Ginott -
If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
J. K. Simmons -
A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Walter Lippmann -
Give peace a chance.
Yitzhak Rabin -
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes -
Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.
Zig Ziglar -
Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.
Arthur Machen -
You got to realize there will be huge Elvis fans out there who'll be really critical, and I'm sure I'm my worst critic, but to get to do my own interpretation of Elvis and do it on a platform like this is really cool.
Drake Milligan
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I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.
Kiana Tom -
I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
Chief Joseph -
About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
Paulo Coelho -
'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands and attended gigs: the anti-hipster's defence against 'the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.'
Katie Kitamura -
I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.
Emily Procter -
Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.
Dontrelle Willis
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Edgard Varese -
I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
Dan Gable -
I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing.
Fantasia Barrino -
They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.
Bill Goldberg -
The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard.
William Howard Taft -
The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.
Evan Esar