Abraham Verghese Quotes
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.
Abraham Verghese
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
Aaron Tveit
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
Taylor Wilson
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. Philip Randolph
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
Imre Kertesz
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
Nazim Hikmet
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Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
Jack Wild
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I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.
Natalie Dormer
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The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.
Basmah bint Saud
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
Abigail Johnson
