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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Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.
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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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In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.
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The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.
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We have to try harder to do our best every day, challenge ourselves to better our world.
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There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
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I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'
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All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
