Evan Esar Quotes
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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.
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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.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
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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.
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
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Moralists have no place in an art gallery.
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One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.
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Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over .
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We just cracked. We had this game. We're not supposed to lose that one. I would rather get blown out.
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Honestly, I wasn't that girl in high school who people spread rumors about.
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I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.
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It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.
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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.
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I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.
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I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
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Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".
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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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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.
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The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.
