Evan Esar Quotes
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
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I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.
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I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.
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I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
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It is of him, ephebe, to make, to confect The final elegance, not to console Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound.
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Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.
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People in the NBA are just as athletic as you. That's the game. You have to have the change of pace. You have to change speeds to get around people.
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I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each book, but for me, writing has always been a very character-driven process.
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Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
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A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
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Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.
