Evan Osnos Quotes
Chinese leaders are saying amongst themselves, according to the Chinese analysts who follow them most closely, that they believe Donald Trump is in the end making hollow threats, and they think that he would be easy to handle, is how one of them put it.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor.
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The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.
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The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.
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As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.
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Chinese leaders are saying amongst themselves, according to the Chinese analysts who follow them most closely, that they believe Donald Trump is in the end making hollow threats, and they think that he would be easy to handle, is how one of them put it.
