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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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
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I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.
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You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.
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I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.
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First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.