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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Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.
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Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.
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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.
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Primitive animals will sometimes keep chattering or twitching their muscles even after their heads have been cut off. And that's probably the best analogy today to the president's continuing enunciation of his policies.
