Evan Esar Quotes
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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There is always pressure in football.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.
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I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.
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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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Pair up in threes.
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There's one thing that we've had success doing, and that's keeping (the Suns) out of their running game, their full-out, 60 mph running game that is difficult for us to keep up, difficult for the whole league to keep up with.
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
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Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.
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I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.
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The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.
