Evan Esar Quotes
The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.
Evan Esar
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
T.I.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
Pat Gillick
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
Eddie Trunk
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Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
Dan Jenkins
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
Maya Angelou
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It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.
William Devane
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Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
John Calvin
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I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.
Sergio Leone
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I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a tragic misconception of time among whites. They seem to cherish a strange, irrational notion that something in the very flow of time will cure all ills.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The best cure for anger is delay.
Seneca the Younger
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Hopeless, filthy, degraded, superstitious with the craven superstition which made them the easy prey of their unscrupulous clergy and left them wholly sensual and stupid; as animals, without the animals' instinctive joy of life and fearlessness of the morrow ; with no ambitions for themselves or the children who turned to curse them for having brought them into such a world; with no time to dream or love, no time for the tenderness which makes life, life indeed — they toiled for a few cruel years because they feared to die, and died because they feared to live. Such were the people Turgot was sent to redeem.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
