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Evan Davis Quotes

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Funny Confidence Long You Bank Out

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Maynard James Keenan

Music Listening Reading Process More

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

Humor Mind Ideas Situation New Try

By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure.

Sleep Strong Pressure Build Up

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

Stephen Hawking

Voice Better Speech Old Keep Made

In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.

Myself I Am Effort Me World Eye

Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design.

Stars Time Travel Space Problems

I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

People Think Confident You Want Get

Most strikingly, 'World of Warcraft' allows you to live a veritable second life. Girls can pretend to be boys; boys can pretend to be girls; human accountants can pretend to be elven mages.

Life Live World You Human Pretend

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

Me Vote Individual Quote Statement

Catholics are every bit as diverse as any other sort of voters out there, with conservative Democrats and moderates.

Conservative Out Democrats Sort Any

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

You Nobody Know Thanks Going Get

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

William Hazlitt

Poet Only Player Envies

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