Donald Berwick Quotes
It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
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Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
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Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.
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It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.
