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.
Quotes to Explore
-
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
-
Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
-
Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
-
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
-
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
-
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.
-
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-
I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
-
Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
-
If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.
-
You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.
-
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.
-
You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.
-
To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
-
Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
-
As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
-
The great thing about Coulson is that he's a little bit like a party game, where the next person who gets ahold of him gets to write another sentence. I'm constantly learning more and more about the guy.
-
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
