Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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By taking the time to learn how to blog properly, you'll be doing your business an incredible favor, as you will be able to drive a lot of business to your website for your blog.
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
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Complexity. In general individual decision makers must be assumed to have multidimensional values which attach nonmonetary subjective cost or value to (1) the process of making and executing individual or group decisions, (2) the end result of such decisions, and (3) the rewards (and perhaps behavior) of other individuals involved in the decision process.
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Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.
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There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
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In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.
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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
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If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.
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You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.
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The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological systems.
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I feel connected to whatever is out there.
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I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.
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The really cool challenge of '24' was learning on camera how to be a dramatic actress. The biggest difficulty was the industry side of things. I was very lucky that I had Joel Surnow, one of the creators of '24,' in my corner. Early on, the Fox executives couldn't believe that I was on the show.
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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
