Evan Osnos Quotes
Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
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I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.
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My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
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Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.
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I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
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I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening next; they mean they are so mesmerised by the writer's voice and the relationship that has been established that they don't want to break that. That's what I feel when I read, and I'm sure now that that's what's going on in the relationship between the reader and the writing.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
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Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.
