Evan Esar Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.
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Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
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Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
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Ted Geisel was trying to make a statement about awareness and personal responsibility. He was very clear about that. But the ideas and themes in 'The Lorax' go beyond a love of trees. It's also a story about the dangers of greed and the power of redemption. That's what makes it a timeless tale.
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A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.
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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
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When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman.
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I think that what will help women get into positions of power - well, day nurseries, equal pay, family-friendly working hours. And I think all that's important. I used to think it was the solution. I now think it's enabling, and it's important, but still we have got head work to do about this.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?
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I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.
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All work and no pay makes a housewife.
