John Kitzhaber Quotes
First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.

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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.
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Good work is good work wherever it is.
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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
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Cuba, for example, is a vanguard outpost, an outpost which overlooks the extremely broad stretches of the economically distorted world of Latin America. Cuba's example is a beacon, a guiding light for all the peoples of America.
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First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.