Laurie Garrett Quotes
Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people's services destroyed, they hate public health.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.
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In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.
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Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
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War is capitalism with the gloves off.
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Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people's services destroyed, they hate public health.
