Evan Davis Quotes
Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
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In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
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It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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I think the work on tax reform, the work that's being done on regulatory reform is very important. And just having a seat at the table, I think, is so important for business today as we think about what's going to benefit the economy of this country, how we're going to create great manufacturing jobs.
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I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.
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I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.
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What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.
