Evan Esar Quotes
You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.
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I don't like watching television too much; it tires me out for some reason. But I saw a fair bit of 'Game of Thrones' because it was so good. I mostly watched episodes that I wasn't in.
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The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.
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It is a much-anticipated game, and it is the last one. If you think about it, I do not think you could ask for anything better than that.
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You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.
