Evan Esar Quotes
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.
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The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
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I never thought of runningMy feet just led the way
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If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
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I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.
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The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street.
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I'm a sucker for a sad song.
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Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.
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I'm very confident in how I project my personality.
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The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
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The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One's children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.
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It was a dream for me to participate in the Olympic Games - now I am in the final and ready to win gold.
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The father threw up on the ground. In the vomit, there were errors--strings not vomit, but language, light. The bunched up bits were writing something, words at once sunk into the ground.
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There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis.
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You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.
