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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. -- Margaret Thatcher
People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it. -- Priyanka Chopra
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head. -- Harold Brodkey
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. -- Charles Horton Cooley
I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process. -- John Anderson
I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.' -- Bo Bice
Honestly, not being evasive, but the great thing about Bond is that I have fifty years of movies - 23 movies and all the Ian Fleming novels and short stories, all of which are fodder. And when I'm working on the new Bond, I'm constantly going back to Fleming and the other movies - what are the bits and pieces, what are the resonances? -- John Logan
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. -- Upton Sinclair
Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests. -- Ayn Rand
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? -- Bharati Mukherjee
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer... -- Ingmar Bergman
Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action. -- Geraldine McCaughrean
It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss. -- C. S. Lewis
If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations. -- Confucius
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision. -- J. K. Rowling

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