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'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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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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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 want to stretch myself as an actor.
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Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers - whatever works for you, honey.
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I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.
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To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.
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I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
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If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
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We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.
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Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.
