Paul Farmer Quotes
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.
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Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'
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After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.
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It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.
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The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.
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I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.
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I would love to get into acting. I really enjoy acting - portraying other personalities and approaching different levels and whatnot - that would be awesome.
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Because of the Internet of Things, we're all going to be connected.
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When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of fun to stand up there. I always enjoy the moment when I'm actually standing on stage. When I'm done, I'm like, 'Oh, I want to play one more song.'
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I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.
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All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.
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I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.
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My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal.
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Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals Neocons was telling the President of the United States...that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a 'decisive surrender' to terrorism.
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Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.
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For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
