Evan Esar Quotes
We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.
Evan Esar
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If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
Olivia Colman
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
Val Guest
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
Ralph G. Neas
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who's going to be your friend - yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don't like.
Rachel Nichols
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
Gabrielle Giffords
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My work is a game, a very serious game.
M. C. Escher
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
Patrick Modiano
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
W. G. Sebald
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I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than that, I have faith in you, the youth of America, to build even more securely on the foundations laid by the faith and devotion of your pioneer fathers.
Harold B. Lee
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
Ted Nelson
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.
Alveda King
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It's all mostly effort when it comes to this game. Maybe some of the younger guys don't have that sense of urgency we obviously need to win basketball games. I think as far as talent we have enough to get over the hump.
Allen Iverson
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You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.
Anthony Robbins
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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.
Aristotle
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I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.
Albert Einstein
