Evan Osnos Quotes

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

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• I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.

  

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• A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

  

  Kage Baker
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• My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  

  Jack Benny
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• That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Care
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• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
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• I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• No one person is an island.

  

  Yehuda Berg
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• We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Important
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• Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?

  

  Parker Harris
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• I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I see flaws as a kind of beauty.

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• Never wound a snake; kill it.

  

  Harriet Tubman
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• Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Feeling
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• I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all of our tomorrows.

  

  Alexandra Stoddard
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• Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
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  • Politics

• If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Politics
  • Punishment
  • Plagiarized