Evan Esar Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.
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The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.
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The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
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I founded Wang Laboratories . . . to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.
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Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh....
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Jesus is all the world to me my life, my joy, my all. He is my strength from day to day Without Him, I would fall.
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The harder they work, the more fortunate they become.
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God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.
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If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.
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Is Messi a real player or a Play Station character?
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired talking.
