Evan Davis Quotes

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

Evan Davis

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For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.

Jenji Kohan

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Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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I condemn racism on all levels, whether personal or systemic.

Tony Evans

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To me, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and my identity is of a suburban Chicago person. It's not like, 'Oh, I'm Indian.' I'm not. I'm American.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.

Dennis Quaid

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I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

Chris Pine

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The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

Wole Soyinka

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I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris.

Marina Abramovic

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Promoters do bigger numbers when Ken Shamrock's name is on the card.

Ken Shamrock

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I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garment: After it's been through wear and tear, it needs attention.

Gina Barreca

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I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

Gregg Easterbrook

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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