Zoe Helene Quotes
A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it's all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort - but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that's still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do - that's a huge piece to moving your life forward.
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A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.
