William Osler Quotes
I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.

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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.
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There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.
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I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.