Arthur Kleinman Quotes
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.
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To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.
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It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.
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You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
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Hope is what makes the human condition liveable
