Evan Esar Quotes
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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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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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.
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You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.
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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
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What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of modesty, that she is the vessel for honor in a community. And I believe that we have to be very pragmatic, too, about the consequence of this. Women in Iran and Saudi Arabia are jailed, punished and harassed if they don't cover themselves legally, according to the standard of those countries. So the consequences for many women is oftentimes very dark.
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If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.
