Paul Farmer Quotes
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.
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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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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.
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When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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Cheney shots his buddy in the face. Clinton shot his intern in the face.
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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!
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The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.
