Evan Esar Quotes
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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 -
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 -
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 -
I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
Florence Henderson -
For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
Barney Frank -
I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
Victoria Justice
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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 -
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe -
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 -
It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.
Valerie Simpson -
A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?
Alan Ayckbourn -
Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything.
Ben Folds
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It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.
Douglas Brinkley -
I am wholesome.
Andrea Corr -
I want to keep trying something new all the time. It is the only way to grow.
Akkineni Nagarjuna -
There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers.
Kathie Lee Gifford -
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhan -
Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.
Corey Taylor Stone Sour
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I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.
Dinesh D'Souza -
As opposed to thinking about ourselves as disrupting the fashion industry, we're thinking about ourselves more broadly - about disrupting the closet and how you get dressed.
Jennifer Hyman -
It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young.
Dwight Schultz -
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
Camille Paglia -
Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Evan Esar