Evan Osnos Quotes
Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.
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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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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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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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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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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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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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Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
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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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For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
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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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Listen can you hear the distance calling Far away but will be with you soon
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When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing.
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As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.
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At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
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America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
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Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.
