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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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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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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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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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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A rule of thumb is that the best investors focus on losers, and the winners take care of themselves.
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I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.
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Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.
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'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey.
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If you're going to do something to hurt the district I represent, I can't vote for it.
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I have a lot of tea in the morning. I always have toast and peanut butter.
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What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.
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Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.
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Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
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Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.
