Atul Gawande Quotes
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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It's all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It's all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
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Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.
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During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.
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To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.
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I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday.
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I just love creating an environment where people can open up and say what's on their mind and in their heart.
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May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.
