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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
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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.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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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.'
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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I've got tons more stuff to do.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
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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.
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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
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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.
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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.
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There are quite a few actors in the business who are much more difficult than kids or monkeys.
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Make music when I want to in whatever style I would like to. That is something that I know that I'm not the only Nightwish member who has that. That's a luxury we can take, and we will.
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Disease cannot live in a body that's in a healthy emotional state.
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Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.
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I try to ignore it, but it's sinking in that I'm, I'm all alone with me.
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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.
