Evan Davis Quotes
Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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I would tell the young Francesco Totti to repeat everything that the older Totti did - if he's able to!
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.
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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
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There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.
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I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas.
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I've never gone to comedy clubs.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.
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Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
