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.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Children
  • Why
  • American

• I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Responsible
  • Cricket
  • Indian

• Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Christianity

• 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.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Think
  • Reading
  • Cooking

• I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Own
  • My Own
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• 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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Help
  • House
  • Friend

• My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Going
  • Groups

• I don't like violence.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Violence

• The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • People
  • Torment
  • Paparazzi

• The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer

  

  Aaron Betsky
  • World
  • Designer
  • Floating

• I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Place

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Business

• I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Women
  • House
  • Times

• 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.

  

  Eli Manning
  • World
  • Real
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Law

• Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Theater
  • Recreation

• Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Business
  • Focus
  • Planning

• The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Argument
  • Court
  • Depends

• The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Running
  • Plant
  • Issues

• My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Trying
  • She

• Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Issues
  • Argument
  • Reducing