Evan Davis Quotes
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
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When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
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I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
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China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet.'
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
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It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
