Evan Esar Quotes

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Evan Esar

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My - both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.

Jimmy Carter

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Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative that was in many American vaccines until 2003. It was removed from many of the pediatric vaccines, but it was put in the flu vaccine, which is now given to 53 million Americans.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

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I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

Amy Sedaris

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Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Roger McGough

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So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Roberta Flack

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Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.

Joseph Stiglitz

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What I have to say, I say face to face.

Claudio Ranieri

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I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you'd talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

Brene Brown

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I am the flower child who will not wilt. You couldn't have asked for anything more.

Annie Golden

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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

Susan B. Anthony

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My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes. I had a lot of energy as a child - sometimes too much - and I didn't know how to channel it. It was making me suffer. It was bigger than myself, and I was very young.

Penelope Cruz

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A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

Thomas Fuller

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