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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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Skill

• 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.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Life
  • Die
  • Fall

• 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.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• All the terrorists are basically migrants.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Terrorists
  • Basically

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• 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.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Beauty

• 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.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Smoking
  • Thank You

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Virtue
  • Everyone

• 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.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Time
  • Business
  • Running

• I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Know
  • Person
  • Saying

• Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Money
  • Answer
  • Most

• Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Important
  • History
  • Proud

• I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
  • Learned
  • Because

• 'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Home
  • Hair
  • Cooking

• I don't believe in traditional company structures because the best ideas do not always come from the top.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Believe

• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• Too much agreement kills the chat.

  

  John Jay Chapman

• Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.

  

  Matt Damon
  • World
  • Different
  • Today

• Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.

  

  Evan Davis
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