Evan Davis Quotes
Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.Evan Davis
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I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
Hans Vestberg -
The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
Bashar al-Assad -
I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
Valentino Rossi -
I am in love with cars; I love anything that moves.
Lapo Elkann -
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I do love cars.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I only get ill when I give up drugs...
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn't exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse. In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it's much more prevalent in America. I'm really intrigued by it. I don't know why that is. But I'm aiming to break down those barriers by being in a Shakespeare film and a Smurfs film within six months of each other.
Alan Cumming -
I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
Al Pacino -
I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.
Courteney Cox -
I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs, so they have to get it through a doctor, not just some gangsters who sell it under the table. Let's legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam. No one's hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.
Tony Bennett -
In Britain, everything is policed except crime.
Mark Steyn
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Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.
Julia Roberts -
The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.
Vivienne Westwood -
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.
Michael Stipe R.E.M. -
I’m not really in favour of drugs, but setting aside one day a year for hallucinogenics definitely opens up new doorways.
Matt Bellamy Muse -
I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
Mel C Spice Girls
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Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
C. S. Lewis -
... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.
Flannery O'Connor -
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.
Albert Camus -
I think that what is really important is that, at the grassroots level, Indian-Americans really engage in the political process. That means voting and volunteering and assisting candidates who support the agenda that is friendly to their values.
Raja Krishnamoorthi -
The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.
Walter Munk -
Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.
Evan Davis