Harold Evans Quotes
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
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We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on, and it just become a part or was a part, was the only part of my life because I spent my whole childhood traveling and being on film sets.
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Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
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In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.
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Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
