Atul Gawande Quotes
To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation - head down, trying not to screw up, trying to make it from one day to the next - that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and asking how much money you want to make.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.
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I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
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One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.
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I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.
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For me, it's always an organic process. I don't personally reach out to artists without the music being created first.
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He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world.
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If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.
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We women have to stick together.
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To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation - head down, trying not to screw up, trying to make it from one day to the next - that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and asking how much money you want to make.
