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.
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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.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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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!
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?
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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.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.
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Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
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Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.
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As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
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I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
