Evan Esar Quotes
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a six-year-old hug my leg after the show and a 60-year-old shake my hand. It's cool to see people connecting with the music across different generations.
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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
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Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
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I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
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I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
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I was involved in the students' union and I had a meeting in London, chaired by the president of the students' union Charles Clarke (now Home Secretary). Howard had no plans for the weekend, so we hatched this plot whereby I took the money for the train fare, but, instead of getting the train, he could borrow a car off a friend, the train fare would pay for petrol and we could stop at his friend Richard's house in Reading,
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After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
