Evan Esar Quotes
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.
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The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women's moguls.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
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I'm attracted to stories of people who don't belong together, who embark on something and find themselves in places they don't belong.
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I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
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Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.
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It's not going to help the country to be subsidizing uneconomical forms of energy - whether you call them 'green,' 'renewable' or whatever. In that case, the cure is worse than the disease.
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Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.
