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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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.
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Actors bond really quickly.
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I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.
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Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
