Evan Esar Quotes
Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
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Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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There is a history in all men's lives.
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We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
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What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to the world by the theocracies of the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Just like the Catholic Church in the 17th century did religious propaganda to challenge the Protestant Reformation, these ideologies are trying to define the way Muslims express Islam in the world.
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Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.
