Abraham Verghese Quotes
My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
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We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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We have no one to stand up for the fighters' rights. If something bad were to happen, no one backs him, and it's just him alone, and everything gets washed out. We need people to stand up and fight for it.
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My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
