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Evan Davis Quotes

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

Evan Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: british
Birth: April 8, 1962

Topics

Doing Rules Others More See Cheat

I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

People Strong Remember You Feelings

Louisiana wants a leader that will take their values to D.C. and will fight for them without wavering.

John Fleming

Leader Fight Values Will Without

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

John Naisbitt

Leadership Finding Parade Front

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

Matthew Lesko

Business Money Government People She

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Jean-Francois Cope

Smile Woman Identity You Meet She

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

Steve Carell

Children Stupid Underestimate Kids

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Simone Weil

Rise Oppression Clearly Give Revolt

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

Tom Ford

Beauty Me Think Will Decade Always

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Joseph P. Bradley

Together Law Society Bond Without

Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

Douglas Leone

Me Side Dozen Like Dime Guys

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

Deborah Norville

Job Television Anchor Reporter

I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I remember once I rang the official who was actually responsible for banning the prawn-cocktail-flavoured crisp, which I think contained a dye called Arithrazine or something like that.

Boris Johnson

People Think Remember Responsible