Evan Osnos Quotes

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

Evan Osnos

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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.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Interest
  • Test
  • Studies

• I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Never
  • Interest
  • Snow

• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

  

  Laura Dern
  • World
  • Say
  • Strange

• 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.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Me
  • Working
  • Interest

• I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Talent
  • Interest
  • Directing

• 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.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Interest
  • Killing
  • Probably

• The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Quality
  • Stars
  • Strange

• The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • Value
  • Interest
  • Finance

• I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Strange
  • Others
  • Unusual

• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Encounter
  • Defeats

• 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.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Growing
  • Human
  • Strange

• 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.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Up
  • Black
  • Strange

• 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.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Regard

• 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.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Interest

• 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.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Friend
  • Acting
  • Persons

• One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Opinion

• 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.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Strange
  • Importance
  • Obsessed

• It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • People
  • Life
  • Knows

• First, we must continually reaffirm the principle that the security of the United States is not, and should never be, a partisan matter. The United States can best defend its national security interests abroad by uniting behind a bipartisan security policy at home.

  

  William S. Cohen
  • Interest
  • Security
  • Policy

• Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.

  

  A.J. Cronin
  • Hope
  • Christian
  • Hell

• I think the most important advice is, a person doesn't have to find out right away. It's not like their first attempt at finding a profession is the only one they're going to find. I might well have gone down other paths, and it still might have been okay. But if you find something that you love, and if it keeps deepening with each new experience, then just stay with it.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Advice

• In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

  

  Georges Danton
  • Need
  • Dare
  • Conquer

• Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Interest
  • Strange
  • Regard