Evan Esar Quotes
Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.
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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
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I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.
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I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.
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Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
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I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.
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"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.
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The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
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I always feel the audience is my best teacher.
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If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation; for now, I've lost the ability to make the sparks fly.
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
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Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.
