Evan Osnos Quotes
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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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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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.
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We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.
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I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.
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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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The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.
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In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people.
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I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.
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I think people's interpretation of a body slam is different than the techniques.
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I've only seen one snake out in the wilderness, not behind glass, and I froze. I literally couldn't move. So to say I have a fear of snakes would be true.
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If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
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I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.
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Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that's a pretty silly way to look at it.
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I don't like people knowing about my business, and my situation, so I try to keep out of people's situations unless they come to me and ask for help.
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Every year you've got somebody coming in and trying to kick you off, so you have to prove yourself. Even for the coaches, too. Their jobs are always on the line.
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Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.
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We can inform decisions when we look at data points on retention rates with your first hundred users, when we look at things like survey responses from your first hundred users.
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I was a mediocre basketball player. But I was there, and I could remember the plays. And my basketball coach, after he retired from teaching, would come to my performances all the time. And I was very happy about that, because I was not memorable as a basketball player.
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In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.
