Evan Davis Quotes
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
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Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
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The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
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I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn’t have.
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Lance Guest in 'The Last Starfighter' had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.
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I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.
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Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.
