Evan Esar Quotes
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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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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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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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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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game 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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I've met every freak in the business.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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Terrorism is not new to black people.
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I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
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I don't think the religion makes the woman; I think the woman is who she is within the religion.
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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
