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.

Evan Osnos

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I am sickened by the idea that anyone would think of me in racist terms.

Steve Clevenger

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The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or redefine - ourselves.

Stephen J. Dubner

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I'm a dancer. I used to dance. I'm not a stunt girl. I had to learn for 'Kingsman,' and I think the movie had an impact in that way where people saw me and thought I can do action. Which I can; I can learn.

Sofia Boutella

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I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.

Sidharth Malhotra

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Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.

Tom Clancy

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I don't think we should have to do a Mars mission on the basis of hysteria. I think we should do a Mars mission on the basis of a deliberate judgment that what we want to do is open up a new planet for humanity... that we are continuing to be a nation of pioneers.

Robert Zubrin

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I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

Miuccia Prada

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It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

Jonathan Powell

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I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.

Conrad Hilton

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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

Wilson Mizner

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Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

Pete Earley

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The scene we shot with Charlie Rose was actually the last piece that was ever shot for 'Breaking Bad.' My daughter and I flew to New York; we got to shoot in the 'Charlie Rose' studio. Adam Godley and Jessica Hecht are such expert performers that we were able to get it very beautifully and very quickly.

Peter Gould

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