Harold Evans Quotes
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Love is more than one thing.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.