Evan Davis Quotes

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• It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

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  Thinking, Everyday Things, Ideas

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• A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

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  Self, Expression, Law

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• Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Nice

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• If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

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  Mistake, Mean, Trying

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.

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  Strong, Degrees, Population

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.

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  Pain, Gay, Thinking

  "Think of me as a man of mystery" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2005.

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• For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.

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  Country, School, Needs

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• But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

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  Clothes, Comedy, Sometimes

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• The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'

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  Two, House, Down And

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• Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

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  Engineering, Projects, British

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• The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting.

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  Keys, Interesting, Very Interesting

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• 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.

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  Believe, Long, Tricks

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• Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

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  Funny, Humor, Car

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• What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

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  People, Done

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• In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

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  Principles, Three, Matter

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• 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.

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  Decision, Brain, Example

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• Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

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  Issues, Way, Argument

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• Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.

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  Today, Programmes

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• 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.

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  Behaviour, Cheat, Accepted

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• Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

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  Mistake, Ashamed

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

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  Sports, Statistics, Finance

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• I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.

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  Views, Sound, Want

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• It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

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  Writing, Want, Knows

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• For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.

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  Years, Europe, World

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• It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

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  Effectiveness, Too Much, Wonder

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