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.
E. F. Benson -
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.
Tasha Smith -
I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
Vera Farmiga -
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
Brown Campbell -
I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
Dan Quinn
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
Yancy Butler -
I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
Garrett Graff -
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.
Quavo Migos -
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.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
When you look like I do, it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck E Cheese.
Zach Galifianakis -
What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.
Walker Percy
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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.
Warren Farrell -
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.
Al Gore -
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.
Joanna Going -
I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
Bruce Cockburn -
When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.
Jenny Lewis -
I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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Anyone who thinks restaurants are hard should try working at a tech company.
Kimbal Musk -
We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
Bill Vaughan -
Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn't matter whether or not they're X-Men characters or they're Matt Murdock or they're Tony Stark or they're Peter Parker... That's where it starts.
Jeph Loeb -
In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
David Duchovny -
There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
Heraclitus -
All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
Evan Esar