Abraham Verghese Quotes
I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Together, We will make America strong again. We will make wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And yes, together, we will make America great again. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America.
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There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.
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It was a lot of pressure, but I loved working with Tim and I loved working with Adrian.
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Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car.
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Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
