Evan Osnos Quotes

I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience.

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• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • War
  • History
  • Promise

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • People
  • Taken
  • Realize

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• The way governments treat their own citizens matters; it matters because it can have a direct impact on international peace and security - and on our respective national security interests.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Impact

• An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Done
  • Innovation

• I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Forever

• My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.

  

  James Carville
  • Good
  • Team
  • Dad

• Israel must take decisions that are good to Israel. We must not try to satisfy anyone else, including our closest ally, the United States of America.

  

  Danny Danon
  • Good
  • America

• Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • People
  • Trust

• I'm interested in just about anything that's right for my voice, and that's a good fit for my personality in the part as well. 'Evita' has always been a dream part for me, but it's really, really high to sing. I'd love to do Elphaba - heck, I'd even do Glinda. For me, I'd do anything to get into 'Wicked!'

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Good
  • High
  • Dream

• If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.'

  

  Christine Woods
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

  

  Louis Begley
  • College
  • Literature

• If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Mirror

• I think when you're on a network show, it's crazy how different it is... just being on a network show that reaches that many people. It's not like I'm very famous, but seemingly overnight, I would get recognized more, and it was really weird.

  

  Adam Scott
  • People
  • Different
  • Crazy

• Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker
  • Mistake

• The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep.

  

  Jaime Pressly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• One of the weird things about modern physics is that we do find there are apparently these other dimensions that we don't directly experience that explain some aspects of the overall geometry and reality of our universe.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Universe

• The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.

  

  Karl Marx

• I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Experience
  • Predictable
  • Toilet Paper