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!

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • You
  • Look
  • Bed

• 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.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Writing
  • Morning
  • Envy

• 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.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • High
  • Growth
  • Better

• I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Lord

• I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Mean
  • Like
  • Go

• 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.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Hard Work

• I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Art
  • History
  • Photography

• 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.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Food
  • Technology
  • Limits

• Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Home
  • Fake
  • Table

• Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

  

  Ian Dury
  • Rock
  • Sex
  • Rock And Roll

• 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.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Up
  • Country
  • Why

• A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Hand
  • Should
  • Kindness

• 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.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Writing
  • Reviews
  • Realising

• Listen can you hear the distance calling Far away but will be with you soon

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Distance
  • Hear

• 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.

  

  Ang Lee
  • God
  • Fear
  • Firsts

• 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.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Book
  • American
  • War

• Well, it was hard to find anybody, but I called my high school boyfriend and said, 'Can you tell the FBI what I was doing in the summer of '52?' And he said, 'Sure, if you'll remind me.' And I did, and he did, and -- that was fine.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • School
  • High
  • Summer

• If I have the power to post 'Happy Birthday' on someone's Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I'm a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It's fun.

  

  Rebecca Mader
  • People
  • Persons
  • Talking

• After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • School
  • Fun
  • Mom

• I still can't understand why anyone cares about what I do or what I say.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Understand
  • Cares

• When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • China
  • Automobiles
  • Supermarkets

• Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • China
  • Socrates
  • Stature