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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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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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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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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I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.
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I still remember sitting in my parent's basement playing 'Final Fantasy VII' in middle school. When Sephiroth came down like LeBron James on Aerith with that sword, I couldn't talk for a full 20 minutes.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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I always used to say to my wife, the thing that I loved most about us is that we are a team, we are impenetrable in that respect.
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If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
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Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
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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.
