Evan Davis Quotes
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
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The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
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I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn’t have.
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I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I'm not very trusting.
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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
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Who knows what will happen in five years' time.
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Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.
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There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.
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Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.
