Evan Davis Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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I love playing the game. I always have. Of course, winning matches makes it much sweeter. The wins and the losses always lead to these big moments, unless you're Serena Williams.
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I don't mind people looking at me. That's never bothered me. I don't want them looking at me in my house; now that would bother me.
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If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
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I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
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Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.
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It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell upon them. —playwright Lillian Hellman
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I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.
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You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.
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Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.
