Evan Esar Quotes
The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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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 watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
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I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
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I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.
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To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.
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The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
