Paul Farmer Quotes

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

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• I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Funny
  • Care
  • Watches

• In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hand

• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Real
  • Church
  • British

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Weird
  • Thought
  • Doing

• If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Love
  • Movies

• We all have our place in this diverse Spain.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Place
  • Diverse
  • Spain

• When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Thought
  • Story
  • Grandmother

• We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Fear
  • Choices
  • Chance

• We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl

• Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Impossible
  • Program
  • Been

• You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Modern

• Most style is not honest enough.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Style
  • Enough
  • Honest

• When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Friends
  • American
  • College

• We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Law
  • Above
  • Brussels

• When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Fate
  • Try
  • Down

• I just want to leave a committed life behind.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Want
  • Committed

• First we have to see. Or first we have to be taught to see. We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else, and if we don't see, hear, taste, smell and feel in this place - not only will we never know anything but the world of sense will be by that much diminished everywhere.

  

  William Carlos Williams
  • World
  • Knows
  • Taught

• If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Right
  • Duty
  • Vocation

• Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Right
  • Anger
  • Punished

• We need to believe Donald Trump when he bullies and threatens to throw out every immigrant in the country.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Country
  • Donald Trump
  • Immigrant

• The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

  

  Paul Farmer
  • Right
  • Prove
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