Evan Esar Quotes
The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.
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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.
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When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.
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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
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I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.
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The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
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The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.
