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Evan Davis Quotes

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

Evan Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Women Management Think More

I think that confidence is a big thing. It's being comfortable, feeling comfortable, managing your schedule.

Jimmy Walker

Confidence Think Feeling Schedule

The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.

John Burroughs

Death Queen Royalty Nothing Never

While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.

Andrew Shaffer

Criticism Never Off Books Pull Blog

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.

John Catsimatidis

Pain Rich Think Feel More Taxes

'The Blue Dragon' uses very filmic language and involves a lot of technology. It is more cinematic than theatrical and was inspired by comic strips and graphic novels.

Robert Lepage

Technology Blue Language More Dragon

In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.

Stewart Butterfield

Learning Experience Design Trying

The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.

Rita Ora

Looks Worst Attractive Guy Awkward

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

Mary McCarthy

Negative America Europe Proof Which

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Myself Someone Done Never See I See

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

Joni Mitchell

Think Way Heroes Paint Modern Well

Sometimes I think I should have stayed longer and I should have done more films.

Doris Day

Think Done Sometimes More I Think

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

Claire Messud

Day Smoking Feel Someone Wish Vice