Evan Esar Quotes
Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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I try to be athletic.
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.
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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
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I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
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We want to create content that our fans will like but at the same time stretches us creatively, with our own little touch.
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It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.
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My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
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Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.
