Evan Esar Quotes
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.
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I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
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Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
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I'd love to play Wonder Woman.
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If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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When people fear surveillance, whether it exists or not, they grow afraid to speak their minds and hearts freely to their government or to anyone else.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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Yet in my lineaments they traceSome features of my father's face.
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'I think I know it all, relatively speaking.'
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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
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You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do.
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Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.
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And then you've got President Clinton who made the case as only he can. After he spoke, somebody sent out a tweet- they said, you should appoint him secretary of explaining stuff. I like that- secretary of explaining stuff. Although, I have to admit, it didn't really say stuff. I cleaned that up a little bit.
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The hotels are entirely run by the Moscow Soviet, which seems to have picked its employees rather for their political reliability than for their experience or cleverness at hotel management.
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The guys on 'Game of Thrones' trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don't mess with their drama, but they allow me to come up with ideas like 'Hey, what if the giant had a bow? And what if he shot some guy off the wall?' With 'Constantine,' too, they really trust me to scare the audience.
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Oh, no, ... I commented on the reaction of some of their players. ... At that point in time, the block was totally legal. I have no problem with that. I just don't like to see the part of the game where people make a celebration at the cost of someone's injury.
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Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.
