Arthur Kleinman Quotes
We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.Arthur Kleinman
Quotes to Explore
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
Ian McDiarmid -
I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
Patrick Chan -
I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
M. J. Rose -
Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
R. Kelly -
Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
Idris Elba -
As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
Tavi Gevinson
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
Sam Shepard -
'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
Tate Donovan -
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
Vicente del Bosque -
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
Edgar Ramirez
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I'm not a materialistic person.
Marat Safin -
You realize mortality is everywhere.
Katey Sagal -
As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.
Carine Roitfeld -
I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
Dan Brown -
I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details.
Karin Slaughter
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch -
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
William Lilly -
In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
Mahatma Gandhi -
With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it. A tiny set of genetic variations divides us from the Neanderthals, but that has made all the difference.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.
Arthur Kleinman