Vikram Patel Quotes
Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?

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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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I work very hard at my game.
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To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.
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There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens.
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I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.
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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
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I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'm not a guy that will keep his head down or respond negatively to boos or whatever.
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Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?