Atul Gawande Quotes
Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.
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Explaining Labour's defeat in the 1983 election in an interview in Marxism Today (April 1986)
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What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
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The history of art and art’s condition at any time are pretty messy. They should stay that way. One can think about them as much as one likes, but they won’t become neater; neatness isn’t even a very good reason for thinking about them. A lot of things just can’t be connected.
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Getting married is a good time to revaluate all of your relationships. Have you had the same haircut since seventh grade? Have you found products that work for your skin? You need time to experiment.
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If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.
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Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.
