Eric Topol Quotes
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.
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The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)
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What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of modesty, that she is the vessel for honor in a community. And I believe that we have to be very pragmatic, too, about the consequence of this. Women in Iran and Saudi Arabia are jailed, punished and harassed if they don't cover themselves legally, according to the standard of those countries. So the consequences for many women is oftentimes very dark.
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You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.
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The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
