David Blumenthal Quotes
Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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I don't like to look typical.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
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There is nothing so striking to the eye on a return to England from the Continent as the stateliness of our trees. I do not know of any trees in Europe to compare with ours.
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My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
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I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madras, and I lost touch with them. But I'm friends with all my directors, and they are very important for me.
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When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
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I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
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I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.
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There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.
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Do not give voice to bigotry.
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All creatures are travellers. The most important journeys are the interior ones. The most important and the most hazardous.
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Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.
