Harold Evans Quotes

We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'

Harold Evans

• Interested
• Jazz
• Beethoven
• Unifocal

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• I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.

  

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• But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

  

  Ed Bradley
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• But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

  

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• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
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• It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

  

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• Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

  

  Dana Stabenow
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• I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

  

  Sadie Frost
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• Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

  

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• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

  

  Samuel George Morton
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• When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • World
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• I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

  

  Salli Richardson
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• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
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• People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
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• I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

  

  Hannes Alfven
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• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  

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• I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.

  

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• I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

  

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• And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

  

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• I don't have any legato skills; I could never figure out how to roll the notes off.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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• I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'

  

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• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  

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• Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
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• We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'

  

  Harold Evans
  • Interested
  • Jazz
  • Beethoven