Evan Osnos Quotes
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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I got sober, and I got happy again.
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The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
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The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.
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When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it's called a revival.
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Home-made smoothies are a great way of satisfying a sweet tooth. Adding in things like frozen banana will make it taste super sweet and creamy.
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
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I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.
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Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing.
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The energy in Silicon Valley is because of the very talented engineers immigrating from around the world, especially Indians and Chinese. They are the best engineers, and Japan doesn't have enough of them.
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When you're the guy inside of a character and you've lived with it for almost two years, you're always a bit defensive about the character, and you want to root for the character you're playing.
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Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before.
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Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.