Marcia Angell Quotes
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
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The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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We live too long for one marriage.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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I think what everyone can do is start creating spaces and forums, talk to peers, friends and family, and start deconstructing these things we take for granted, unpack these old systems, in order to understand ourselves more deeply, to understand why we do the things we do and how our privileges affect other people's lack of privilege.
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.
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I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.
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Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
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This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
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Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
