Evan Osnos Quotes
Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
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The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
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I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.
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If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.
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He strikes me as being very disciplined, ... I thought he clearly was one that really gives strong preference for what the law and precedent is. I mean, he talked about that a lot, that he's very methodical and restrained in that regard.
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Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.
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A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
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It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.
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It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.
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I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.
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My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
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I know more English than Spanish, but I'm always a little embarrassed.
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Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.
