Evan Esar Quotes
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.
Evan Esar
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Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
Carly Fiorina
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Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
Eberhard Weber
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
J. Carter Brown
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One thing about 'Thelma & Louise' we can't forget: Brad Pitt. Oh, yes.
Kristan Higgins
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If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.
Betty Carter
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We are all more capable than we think we are.
Morna Anne Murray
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I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.
Donald Glover
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How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.
Dada Vaswani
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We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe.
Barack Obama
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The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.
Yaya Toure
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If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.
Abraham Lincoln
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The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.
Phil Collins
Genesis
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.
Laila Ali
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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.
Plato
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When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.
Evan Esar
