Evan Esar Quotes
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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By being friends with all, we are not alone.
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In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
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No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.
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'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
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My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.
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I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.
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The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
