Evan Osnos Quotes
Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
Nastassja Kinski -
Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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One guy wins and one guy loses, but it's not entirely up to him. Our sport is so crazy that on any given Sunday, anybody can win. You can run the same race over and over five times, and you'll probably get five different winners. It's wild.
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Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn.
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If you want to talk about luck, we're normally sailing where it's 600 meters (2,000 feet) deep ... The good news is no one was hurt. The crew hardly got wet.
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The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
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Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.
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It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
