Evan Osnos Quotes
When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
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We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.
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Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
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A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
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I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.
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There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.
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I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
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At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time.
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Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.
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China's Communist Party is wary of independent-minded movements.
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When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.
