Margaret Heffernan Quotes
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.Margaret Heffernan
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
J. B. Pritzker -
Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
Adam Cohen -
Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
Victoria Osteen -
Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
Rand Paul -
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
Zach Roerig -
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
Maggie Gallagher
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When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
Tea Obreht -
We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
C. V. Raman -
For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
Jack O'Brien -
If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
Pat Burns -
I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.
Manoj Bhargava -
Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.
Zeresenay Alemseged
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
Van Morrison -
The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. ... The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
C. Wright Mills -
I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
Yehudi Menuhin -
When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.
Elias Canetti -
Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
Ambrose Bierce -
Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.
Alan Moore
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I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.
Matt Bomer -
We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them.
Jenny Slate -
The market had reasserted itself as an impersonal force beyond the power of any person to control, and, while this is the way markets are supposed to be, it was horrible.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
Charles Kuralt -
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
Margaret Heffernan