Evan Esar Quotes
Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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If the US and Europe genuinely support the people, as they say, they must not betray our peaceful revolution. It is the expression of the democratic will of the overwhelming majority of the people of Yemen.
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It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions.
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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.
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I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.
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Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
