Evan Osnos Quotes
As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed.
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I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounce, because I want to feel like I'm in an active state.
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There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
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I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.
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As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.
