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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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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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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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.
