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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We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.
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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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If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.
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Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
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The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.
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We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.
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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.
