Patrick Soon-Shiong Quotes
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
Quotes to Explore
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
