Bernie Siegel Quotes
I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
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Baseball is my job, and I love it, but it can't be the only thing I've got going on.
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Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.
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I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.
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I wish I had had more mentorship and more access, not only for capital, but the critical thinking.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
