Evan Osnos Quotes
In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher.
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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We're gonna give you a great show.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
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Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.
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Yoga is a means and an end.
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.
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I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.
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I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.
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Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
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Music industry ones, it’s kind of like “Be wary of what people promise you” because everybody will promise you the sun, moon, and the stars.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher.
