Evan Esar Quotes
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
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I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'
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I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.
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The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.
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Very quickly I fell in with others like me-newcomers, dreamers, young people drawn to the city in spite of its dangers because sometimes, for some of us, tedium and familiarity feel worse than risking your life.
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Evolution and creationism both require faith.
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For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.
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When Josh and I are recording a record, we're very mindful of how the music will manifest itself live. That's where we have to live every day. When we tour for the next record, I imagine there will be a new story to tell, and we'll introduce new characters.
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You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.
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An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner . . . The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. It is therefore necessary that an attempt be made as soon as possible to solve the problem, which of course must first be discovered by the ego, which has avoided it.
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We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.
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There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn and to grow intellectually until the day they die. And these usually are the people who make contributions, who leave some part of the world a little better off than it was before they entered it.
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A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much.
