Evan Esar Quotes
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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It doesn't always make sense to have a token on the blockchain that is both useful and represents ownership - it has to be something where there's a network effect. That's why I cite Facebook as an example of what could be disrupted more so than, say, Amazon - which is bit more centralized and is not exactly a network of users in the same way.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
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We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
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Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.
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To suggest that immigration is the exclusive domain of the federal government, disallowing partnerships with local law enforcement, defies the will of Congress, not to mention reality. Numerous local jurisdictions have laws on the books dealing with immigration in a variety of ways.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.
