Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes
A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.
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The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I love the free spirit in London.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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Time is bunk.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together.
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I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
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My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
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A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.
