Evan Esar Quotes
Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
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It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.
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It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want-not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.
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Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you do all of those things, but it also shows the performers in a very raw state. They have to literally upset themselves to get to that position sometimes. You don't need a load of people judging you or not being interested in what you're doing or being an ass on set because it ruins it.
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Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.
