Abraham Verghese Quotes
I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.Abraham Verghese
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
Felix Baumgartner -
It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
Rand Paul -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.
Mads Mikkelsen -
You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
Walter Kirn -
The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
Taylor Hanson Hanson
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
Cao Cao -
One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
Iman -
If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
Idris Elba -
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson -
In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
Gary Goetzman -
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
Ted Dexter
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
Sam Jaeger -
I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
Adam D'Angelo -
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
Manuel Puig -
As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
Karen Elson -
There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
Taya Kyle -
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. Priestley
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Campaigns are about adjustments.
James Carville -
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Plato -
I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Nando's - boom! That's what I'm thinking of whenever I'm in London. I go there every time.
Kaytranada -
I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
Abraham Verghese