Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.
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The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.
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I think I'm more European in personality.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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The more gunk I have on my face, the less free I feel.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I know I have a hit show on my hands.
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Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
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If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
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They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
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And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
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Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.
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A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.
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If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.
