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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People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.
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My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.
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He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.
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During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.
