Patrick Soon-Shiong Quotes
If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.
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The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x.
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If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
