Evan Esar Quotes
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
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I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
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The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.
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'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
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I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh, wait. I'm different all the time. I'm going to change every second and grow and be fluid." And that's okay.
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The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.
