Evan Esar Quotes
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.
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An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
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Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
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Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
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Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity, too. I couldn't put it down.
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She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
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It's a crapshoot. You're dealing with kids, 17 to 21 years old. That's a lot of pressure. Think of all the pressure -- and the money that is bet on it, legally and illegally. It's amazing.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
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A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.
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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
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You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.
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The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake.
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An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.
