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Evan Davis Quotes

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

Evan Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Heart Government Door Holocaust Out

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

Andy Goldsworthy

Stronger Stone Skin Stones Than

Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still works structurally and dramatically.

John Requa

Fly You Everything Adjust Own Take

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

Steven Stucky

Patience Music Character Habit Fake

I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure that I'm hitting the notes right on the head... and having it appear quite effortless.

Tony Bennett

Think Right Head Notes Sure Sing

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

Success Day Small Out Success Is

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

Robert Carlyle

Bullying Terrible Thing

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Good Writing Reading Lesson Never

I'm not old-fashioned.

Cher

Old-Fashioned

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Woodrow Wilson

Government Democracy Principles Set

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Free Privacy Right Single Anything

No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years.

William M. Daley

Better Years Lived Senate Knows He

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

Phillips Brooks

Men Stronger Easy Pray Pray For