Evan Davis Quotes
Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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The cheerful tides of friends and neighbors, over the years, had washed away nearly all the stains that the dark rage Agne’s father had impressed on these rooms. She hoped her brothers might eventually see that hatred and anger are only scars upon a beach, while love is the rolling surf that ceaselessly smooths the sand.
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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
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Companies in Mexico are not going to do well if they don't have some connection to not just markets, but also suppliers and technology from the United States.
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To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.
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Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice today, which is infinitely more sophisticated, is Rokitansky's medicine.
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Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.
