Evan Osnos Quotes

In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home.

Evan Osnos

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There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

Jim Thome

GameYouFeelingSituationHardGet

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

John Lithgow

NightEveningNothingAudienceLike

I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.

Alton Brown

StartFishEasyYouSkinNice

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

Stephen Bayley

FurnitureFindSometimesThingsMade

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Sigmund Freud

HappyGoalPleasureUpMayUs

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Tryon Edwards

StrengthHabitBrokenSteelChains

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

Treat Williams

LifeSuccessGoodYourselfDefine

I will always love red lips.

Rita Ora

LoveRedLipsWillAlways

To get the feel of the polar night, I went back to Spitsbergen in winter. I went snowshoeing in the dark and experimented with headlamps and climbed a glacier in driving snow.

Michelle Paver

WinterSnowNightFeelDrivingDark

You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'

Mira Nair

CharacterI AmMeYouUnderstand

I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.

Corey Taylor

HomeMeProudFriendsPlaceGo

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

Annie Besant

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