Evan Esar Quotes
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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I want to thank my momma for pulling up. I want to thank my boys who was with me since day one; thank you for pulling up on me.
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I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
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I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.
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I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.
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When you look like I do, it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck E Cheese.
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What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.
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Implicit in the Hollywood formula of mom-by-option and dad-by-default is mom never at fault...to a fault.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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We must acknowledge that the utter poverty of hundreds of millions of people is not a matter for compassion only, but a threat in the long term to the growth and vigor of the global economic system. We must see it as a part of our charge to help create economic opportunity so that the gap between the richest and poorest does not grow ever wider.
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I love doing period work, like all the trappings and the wigs and everything. It really helps when it's such a different world that you're immersing yourself in; it helps to get into the story, I think, and step into that different place.
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My family's a ruling family.
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There are two kinds of animals on earth. One kind minds his own business, the other minds other people's business. The former are vegetarians, like cows, sheep and thinking men. The latter are carnivorous, like hawks, tigers and men of action.
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It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.
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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.
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All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
