Evan Esar Quotes
There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
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Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictivelyMade in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?
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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
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During the course of many years of investigation into the plant life of the world, creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others, I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.
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Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
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The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.
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You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.
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I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark'... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet.
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I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how all that could work. It seemed like a great mystery, especially how organelles in the cell can be arranged in three dimensions, and how thousands of proteins could find their way to the right location in the cells.
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Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
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As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.
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The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
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There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.
