Daniel J. Evans Quotes
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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The media is controlled.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
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I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
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I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.
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I always make a joke that they transplanted Martina McBride's eyes and put them in my head.
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
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I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.
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I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
