Evan Osnos Quotes
China doesn't have a single leader. It has - a first among equals is the president, and his name will probably be Xi Jinping, almost certainly.
Evan Osnos
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Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.
Yoshihiko Noda
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
J. G. Ballard
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In America, public opinion is the leader.
Frances Perkins
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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
Samantha Power
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
Patrick Lencioni
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The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
Warren Bennis
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I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.
Warren Littlefield
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China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.
Wang Jianlin
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In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.
Fatema Mernissi
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Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.
Natalie Maines
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I was born in northeastern China, where we have the privilege to see forests just out of the window. And I thought, I am going to do something because I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert. From that day on, environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.
Li Bingbing
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I've always moved into a band where the musicians are a lot more capable than me. It's always been a conscious effort and it makes you raise your game.
John Verity
Argent
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Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
Paul Muldoon
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Rachel Kushner
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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
Oswald Chambers
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My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.
Paul Auster
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China doesn't have a single leader. It has - a first among equals is the president, and his name will probably be Xi Jinping, almost certainly.
Evan Osnos
