Daniel J. Evans Quotes

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Skill

• I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Talent
  • Photography

• My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Why
  • Enough
  • Talent

• If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • God
  • Culture

• If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Patience

• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Real
  • Genius
  • Simplicity

• If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Never
  • Dance

• For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Me
  • Happiness
  • Wellbeing

• As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Up
  • Desire
  • Hunger

• I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Girl
  • Lunch
  • Likes

• I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Think
  • Hate

• I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Good
  • Independent

• Lacan, Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Perfect
  • Personality

• On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.

  

  Larry Wall

• I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.

  

  Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

  

  Saadi
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Tree
  • Forest
  • Species

• I'd like to jump a couple hundred years into the future and work with the scientists who are getting back the first information from our probes to planets orbiting nearby stars.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Work
  • Future
  • Couple

• I still believe in a place called Hope.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Hope
  • Place

• I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

  

  Daniel J. Evans