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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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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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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It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.
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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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Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.
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Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
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For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.
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Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.
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Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.
