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Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
EVAN DANDO See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million diff...
EVAN DANDO Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.
EVAN DANDO I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecur...
EVAN DANDO For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
EVAN DANDO I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.
EVAN DANDO But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
EVAN DANDO Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.
EVAN DANDO When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They ar...
EVAN DANDO CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.
EVAN DANDO I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it&...
EVAN DANDO I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in whic...
EVAN DANDO I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.
EVAN DANDO I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear the...
EVAN DANDO It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that any...
EVAN DANDO My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that fo...
EVAN DANDO The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
EVAN DANDO When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
EVAN DANDO When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross be...
EVAN DANDO You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.
EVAN DANDO I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I thi...
EVAN DANDO I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a b...
EVAN DANDO I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn'...
EVAN DANDO Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.
EVAN DANDO

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in E...
JILL DANDO

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimb...
JILL DANDO

Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame o...
EVAN DAVIS I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and...
EVAN DAUGHERTY

I'm a gun owner and strong supporter of the Second Amendment.
EVAN MCMULLIN There is real value in sharing moments that don't live forever.
EVAN SPIEGEL

For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interv...
EVAN DAVIS

If there is anyone who should not be trusted with regard to intelligence, it is Donald Trump, both i...
EVAN MCMULLIN

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. H...
EVAN DAVIS

You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a...
EVAN BAYH

I believe Donald Trump is a bona fide authoritarian. I am deeply concerned that if he were president...
EVAN MCMULLIN We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they...
EVAN WRIGHT

Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay.
EVAN OSNOS I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I ...
EVAN PETERS It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I...
EVAN PETERS 'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blog...
EVAN WILLIAMS My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more informatio...
EVAN WILLIAMS

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we ...
EVAN DAVIS Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
EVAN ESAR Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
EVAN ESAR Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
EVAN ESAR The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
EVAN ESAR Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
EVAN ESAR Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
EVAN ESAR Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different...
EVAN ESAR Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won'...
EVAN ESAR

Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awa...
EVAN DAVIS

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.
EVAN BAYH

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a s...
EVAN BAYH

For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resor...
EVAN DAVIS Technology businesses in general are susceptible to hacking. That's why you have to work really,...
EVAN SPIEGEL When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with...
EVAN SPIEGEL

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailer...
EVAN DAVIS

Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerosp...
EVAN DAVIS

At the age of eighty, the Dalai Lama has begun to discuss a range of prospects for the future dispos...
EVAN OSNOS It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to...
EVAN PARKER

My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he noneth...
EVAN BAYH

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.
EVAN OSNOS A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are hig...
EVAN WILLIAMS Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
EVAN ESAR It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using differen...
EVAN GLODELL

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

It's never too late to do the right thing, and America deserves much better than either Donald T...
EVAN MCMULLIN Mitt Romney is a true Mormon. John Edwards and Bill Clinton are not real Mormons. It was not 'Br...
EVAN SAYET

Any time a president is re-elected, he has a little more political clout to get things done.
EVAN BAYH

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near oth...
EVAN DAVIS

In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one t...
EVAN OSNOS

I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in ...
EVAN BAYH

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to t...
EVAN DAVIS I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. ...
EVAN PETERS

The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing...
EVAN OSNOS

When I lived in Beijing in 1996, it was a horizontal city. If you wanted to go out for a burger, if ...
EVAN OSNOS

By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of ...
EVAN OSNOS

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evo...
EVAN DAVIS

Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics ...
EVAN DAVIS

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assu...
EVAN DAVIS

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reaso...
EVAN DAVIS

But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, a...
EVAN DAVIS

Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help o...
EVAN OSNOS

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritaria...
EVAN OSNOS

When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individual...
EVAN OSNOS

Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, characte...
EVAN DAVIS

The United States depends on South Korea and Japan to help promote American values in East Asia.
EVAN BAYH

If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subjec...
EVAN OSNOS One of the things I'm trying to get better at is apologizing when I make mistakes. That's be...
EVAN SPIEGEL

On the matter - on the issue of life, it's life. So I actually would pursue appointment, court a...
EVAN MCMULLIN I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage....
EVAN WILLIAMS Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting...
EVAN SAYET I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.
EVAN GOLDBERG

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for grant...
EVAN DAVIS I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.
EVAN SPIEGEL

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-exp...
EVAN DAVIS

Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much ti...
EVAN OSNOS I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attrac...
EVAN WILLIAMS Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies tha...
EVAN WILLIAMS The social marketing teams of big companies will always figure out a way to advertise on Snapchat. I...
EVAN SPIEGEL Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.
EVAN DAUGHERTY I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic al...
EVAN PETERS Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
EVAN ESAR Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
EVAN ESAR a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
EVAN MEEKINS

Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in ...
EVAN MCMULLIN

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreig...
EVAN BAYH We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the wo...
EVAN SPIEGEL

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is temp...
EVAN DAVIS I went to a Christian all-boys' college one time to pick up my buddies so we could go play baseb...
EVAN GOLDBERG I guess creepy comes natural to me - I hate to say that.
EVAN PETERS

Massive debts owed to foreign creditors weaken our global influence and threaten high inflation and ...
EVAN BAYH Ephemeral should be the default.
EVAN SPIEGEL It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are im...
EVAN SPIEGEL I don't want to disrupt anything. We never conceive of our products as disruptive - we don't...
EVAN SPIEGEL When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things....
EVAN WILLIAMS

If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage the...
EVAN OSNOS I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the dr...
EVAN DAUGHERTY After 'Divergent,' I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really l...
EVAN DAUGHERTY

Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used ...
EVAN OSNOS

For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of ...
EVAN OSNOS Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that co...
EVAN PARKER

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean peop...
EVAN BAYH People are fans of Dunkin' Donuts. They have a relationship with the company, they go there ever...
EVAN WILLIAMS At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.
EVAN SAYET

Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expe...
EVAN BAYH

There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a tru...
EVAN OSNOS The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we do...
EVAN SPIEGEL Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis s...
EVAN ESAR Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
EVAN ESAR It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.
EVAN ANDERSON I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he...
EVAN ANDERSON I've got a 6-4 cousin, but that's about it.
EVAN ANDERSON Yes, it's not many people from there.
EVAN ANDERSON

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplu...
EVAN BAYH Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete somethin...
EVAN SPIEGEL Online one day, you log in, and you realise, 'This is not me.' Everything you're posting...
EVAN SPIEGEL

There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act ...
EVAN MCMULLIN

The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the b...
EVAN DAVIS

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mai...
EVAN DAVIS Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it
EVAN ESAR Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
EVAN ESAR Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
EVAN ESAR It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all ov...
EVAN ESAR You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and de...
EVAN ESAR The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
EVAN ESAR Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
EVAN ESAR Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
EVAN ESAR Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
EVAN ESAR Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
EVAN ESAR All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
EVAN ESAR A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
EVAN ESAR A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.
EVAN ESAR

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

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
EVAN DAVIS America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional ...
EVAN ESAR Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you s...
EVAN ESAR On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; T...
EVAN LEIBOVITCH All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy -- a Jill a rich widow.
EVAN ESAR Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an env...
EVAN SPIEGEL After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and...
EVAN WILLIAMS

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: ...
EVAN DAVIS

There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree o...
EVAN DAVIS The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.
EVAN WILLIAMS

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding," Senato...
EVAN BAYH

Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland. ... The t...
EVAN BAYH

A period of introspection is appropriate after a tough political loss, but we've got to move beyond ...
EVAN BAYH

Many Americans wonder if we're willing to use force to defend the country even under the most compel...
EVAN BAYH

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can st...
EVAN BAYH

When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.
EVAN OSNOS

Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good...
EVAN BAYH The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use ...
EVAN SPIEGEL

My church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, puts Jesus Christ at the focal point. It...
EVAN MCMULLIN

Of course, it's a matter of courtesy,
EVAN BAYH

To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online...
EVAN OSNOS

Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign count...
EVAN BAYH

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two...
EVAN DAVIS

In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news...
EVAN OSNOS A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If y...
EVAN DAUGHERTY

Sometimes, it takes leaving to gain some perspective. I see that clearly every time I leave Washingt...
EVAN BAYH

The United States must not allow North Korea to exacerbate tensions between our key strategic allies...
EVAN BAYH

When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the ...
EVAN DAVIS

Donald Trump, despite his campaign promises, this is not a guy who is going to be willing to send ex...
EVAN MCMULLIN

Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's do...
EVAN BAYH

We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private ind...
EVAN BAYH Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If th...
EVAN SPIEGEL

Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and i...
EVAN OSNOS Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.
EVAN SAYET

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party ...
EVAN OSNOS

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone...
EVAN DAVIS

In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of...
EVAN OSNOS

My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim ...
EVAN BAYH Jessica Lange is a sweetheart, the nicest lady in the world. She has a Poodle named Jack.
EVAN PETERS And I love Jennifer Lawrence. She's a total fox. And such a good actress. It's ridiculous.
EVAN PETERS Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz m...
EVAN PARKER I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
EVAN PARKER

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numb...
EVAN OSNOS Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy
EVAN THOMAS

I said, 'I'm sorry, Mom, I've got to go to the bathroom,'
EVAN BAYH

The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin...
EVAN OSNOS

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

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