David Shulkin Quotes
I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
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Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.
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As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
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The only things I had to look forward to in life was a job and a career and a family and just going through the whole cycle. It just seemed like what everybody else was doing. And I looked at people around me. I looked at the people that taught the schools and around the government, and I looked at the type of work that my father did, and none of it really interested me that much. And when I first took psychedelics, I felt like I was admitted into a world of compassion and beauty and creativity. It was like nothing I had experienced in my regular life. And almost instantly that became the goal of where I wanted to be...
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I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
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There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.
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I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.
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You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.
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I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.
