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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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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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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I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted.
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If I saw and if I really sincerely thought that what Putin is doing is harmful for my country and for my people and it needs to be stopped, I wouldn't hesitate to do that.
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And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.
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'I Know. I Know! Let's Go Potholing! In Croatia!' 'Fine. I know a guy who can give us a lift... Me!'
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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.
