Evan Osnos Quotes
If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
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Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
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All my stuff is men's fashion. It's always oversized shirts, boyfriend blazers and trousers.
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We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.
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There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.
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I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.
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The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
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There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.
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When it comes time to where the new album gets closer, I start singing the song a cappella; I'll preview it on my Snapchat and get creative with it - just kind of bringing everybody into more than just listening to the record on album.
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Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.
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A very high bar has been set with Robert Downey in 'Iron Man.' That idea was, find the best actor for the part, regardless of whether they've been in a movie like this before.
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I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity.
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I've always wanted to explore different types of roles and prove to others that Divyanka is not all about being a timid dulhan.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.
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Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.
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If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.
