Evan Esar Quotes
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.
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As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
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All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.
