Evan Esar Quotes
Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Evan Esar
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
Vera Wang
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
Gavin Andresen
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
Florence Henderson
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
Camille Paglia
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
Barney Frank
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
Victoria Justice
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
Dan Quayle
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
J. K. Simmons
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
Sabrina Carpenter
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There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers.
Kathie Lee Gifford
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When I'm working on something, even when I don't know exactly where it's going, I have a sense of what I'd like to make. So maybe doing things right is following that sense even when I stop trusting myself. The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.
Martine Syms
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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
Brian Sutton-Smith
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
Saint Basil
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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Francoise Sagan
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Evan Esar
