"Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy,……" — Evan Davis
"Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify."
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63 Quotes by Evan Davis
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Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe…
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Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty,…
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At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty.…
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Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts…
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I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there…
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It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter.…
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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…
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For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they…
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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…
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I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much…
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Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than…
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Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of…
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More Consumption Quotes
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Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat…
— Neal Barnard
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
— Gary Bauer
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire…
— Joseph Beuys
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All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption…
— David R. Brower
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Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking.…
— Jerry Brown
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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
— Jimmy Carter
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There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political…
— Noam Chomsky
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
— Noam Chomsky
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities…
— Sherwood Boehlert
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the…
— Doug Larson
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