Evan Davis Quotes
Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.Evan Davis
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
Mamie Van Doren -
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
Barton Gellman -
I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
Tavi Gevinson -
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
Samantha Power -
Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
Kate Bush
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
Edmund White -
I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony -
We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
Ted Deutch -
The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
Gabe Newell -
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead -
I've got tons more stuff to do.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
Vin Diesel -
It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
Taylor Phinney -
I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.
Dane Cook -
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
Laura Hillenbrand -
I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.
Maisie Williams -
The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.
Dan Aykroyd
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I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.
Tony Kushner -
You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
Akbar Ganji -
The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.
Barry Hannah -
Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.
Christofer Drew -
Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.
Evan Davis