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.
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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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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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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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The body which is nearest to the light casts the largest shadow, and why? If an object placed in front of a single light is very close to it you will see that it casts a very large shadow on the opposite wall, and the farther you remove the object from the light the smaller will the image of the shadow become.
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.
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There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.
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Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.
