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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Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.
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We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
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We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.
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Not his problem. Fewer and fewer things are.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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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.
