Evan Esar Quotes
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
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I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
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I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.
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Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
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The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R' during the day. It's even in the same studio. I've been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at 'The Price Is Right' are familiar.
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A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond.
