David Shulkin Quotes
It was clear that VA was in need of reform, and when the president asked for help, I could not say no. First, I felt I could help, and my private sector experience was relevant. Second, that this was my chance to give back to those that had stepped up to serve our country.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
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She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
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It was clear that VA was in need of reform, and when the president asked for help, I could not say no. First, I felt I could help, and my private sector experience was relevant. Second, that this was my chance to give back to those that had stepped up to serve our country.
