Evan Osnos Quotes

I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.

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• When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Money
  • America
  • Wall

• I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Good
  • Home
  • Strong

• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wisdom

• I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Ethics

• I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Help
  • Realize

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Attention
  • Talk

• I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Competition
  • Writers
  • Encouraging

• I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Jazz

• When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Think
  • Look
  • Admire

• I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • True
  • Balance
  • Sympathy

• As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Band

• I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Always
  • Enjoy

• Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Easy

• What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Up
  • Government

• If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Country
  • Government
  • Economy

• I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

  

  Ernie Fletcher
  • Game
  • Political
  • Government

• I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Live
  • Better

• A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path.

  

  Bai Juyi
  • Up
  • Path
  • Boat

• I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Government
  • Working
  • Reporter