Evan Esar Quotes
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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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 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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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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I was on 'Search for Tomorrow' for about nine months, then 'Another World' for two years.
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
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It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.
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Walk the road with your eyes closed and your arms spread out wide and let the wind show you where to step.
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I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
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No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
