Evan Osnos Quotes
In Beijing, the joke among hacks is that, after the drive in from the airport, you are ready to write a column; after a month, you feel the stirrings of an idea-book; but after a year, you struggle to write anything at all, because you've finally discovered just how much you don't know.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
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It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
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We are a very united group. We like to have fun, we like to joke around.
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When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.
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In Beijing, the joke among hacks is that, after the drive in from the airport, you are ready to write a column; after a month, you feel the stirrings of an idea-book; but after a year, you struggle to write anything at all, because you've finally discovered just how much you don't know.
