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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The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
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How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
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You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
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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?
