Abraham Verghese Quotes
We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.Abraham Verghese
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
Iris Apfel -
There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
Magnus Scheving -
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
Harold MacMillan -
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
Patrick Wilson -
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
Harold Pinter -
I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
Rachel Perry
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
Samuel Lover -
First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
Nate Berkus -
You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
Cam Gigandet -
I dress for men.
L'Wren Scott -
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
J. R. Martinez
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle -
There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
Caitlin Flanagan -
The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
Manika -
You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
Felix Adler
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Harper Lee -
The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
Fareed Zakaria -
It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
Zach LaVine -
I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
Pamela Dean -
I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.
Milo Ventimiglia -
We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
Abraham Verghese