Evan Davis Quotes
Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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I don't like violence.
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The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer
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I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!
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There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.
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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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I try to stay level-headed and it's always the way I've been. Sometimes your personality out in the real world, you want to take that into your sport because that's where you feel comfortable. You never want to try to do something that's not you or you don't feel comfortable doing. That's where you get in trouble. It's the only way I've played sports and done things. I'm low-key, but I'm very competitive and hate to lose.
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The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.
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Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
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We're a show-and-tell generation. People want to see behind the scenes. The more involved and invited they are, the closer affinity they have to your brand.
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Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.
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There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit.
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I tend to judge a piece of criticism by how smart I find the argument. This, I know,, is not how everyone does it.
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Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.
