Evan Esar Quotes
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.
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Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά.
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Harriet: making an excuse Um... I'm looking for a copy of The Wheat-Free Guide to Creative Visualization in Co-dependent Past-Life Relationships.Mo: Huh. Jeez, I never heard of that one... Wonder if it's in spirituality or cooking.
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It is an established scientific fact that monetary policy has had virtually no effect on output and employment in the U.S. since the formation of the Fed.
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It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!
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Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game.
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How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.
