Evan Osnos Quotes
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.
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I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.
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I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.
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I've had some experience in this arena. So it wasn't foreign to me to have a woman say she doesn't want to see me anymore.
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We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made in the '80s and '90s can never change, is absurd.
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You want to have enough of a profile to be able to do all the work you can, but at the same time you want to have your own space. But there are a lot of actors who achieve it, a lot of movie stars even, people like Emily Watson and Cate Blanchett. They seem to be able to carry on with their lives and still produce wonderful, high-profile work.
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Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
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Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
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Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.
