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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For within you is the light of the world — the only light that can be shed upon the Path.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it's not just a sports contest - a boxing match for money or belts.
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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?
