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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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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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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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
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All I wanted to do was create theater for us, for our generation, for the people of this planet. And it's so rare that the art that you are making is reaching a huge mass of people.
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I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.
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For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.
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I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
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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.
