Evan Osnos Quotes

The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.

Evan Osnos

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In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.

Andie MacDowell

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Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

Megan Hilty

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In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.

Robert Powell

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I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.

Ann Maxwell

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Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Steve Jobs

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To me, it didn't matter where I played, I just wanted to play well.

Ronnie Lott

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Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.

Roma Downey

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We should seriously rethink a tax code that makes it less and less possible for one parent to stay home with the kids and replace it with a family-friendly system of tax collection.

Mike Pence

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If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

Lorrie Moore

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If a fighter thinks he knows everything and stops trying to evolve, he's lost.

Jose Aldo

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Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

Cindy Gallop

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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

William Wycherley

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