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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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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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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I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility
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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.
