Evan Esar Quotes
A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.
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It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented.
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It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning...
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Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.
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Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds:-That is by the letters written by their quills.
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The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.
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I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.
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That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
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I went to New York for Fashion Week and girls showed up waiting to see me. It's funny because there's a group of girls who I actually recognize because they always show up. It's nice and I'm like, 'Hi girls! I recognize your faces!' It's just like a feel-good experience.
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A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.
