Abraham Verghese Quotes
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?Abraham Verghese
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
Hans Frank -
Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
Kat Graham -
Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
Ingrid Betancourt -
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
Ma Jian
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini -
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
Jack Dee -
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
Patricia Arquette -
When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
Carine Roitfeld -
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
Ian Mckellen -
I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
Laura Lippman
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
Calvin Coolidge -
I like to make my name of songs strange.
Flula Borg -
Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
Nancy Lublin -
If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
Irving Kirsch -
I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
Jack Quaid -
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
Ferran Adria -
Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
Rita Mae Brown -
I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
Cecil Jacobson -
I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.
Busy Philipps -
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
Abraham Verghese