Evan Esar Quotes
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I will continue to try and be innovative to keep it fresh for my fans.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
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I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.
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I think that he Michael Jackson did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that was denied to himself. There's no question that the transcendent art that he created was a means, an instrument, a vehicle for others to experience what he didn't.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I like to fool with the stuff and I go up in my little studio and once you get into it, you may stay there hours doing it.
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A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.
