Evan Esar Quotes
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
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And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
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With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.
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It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.
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In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.
