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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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.
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How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?
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I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.
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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?
