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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Very seldom do I write words and have somebody put the music to them. If I'm writing lyric and music at the same time, I usually finish the music rather quickly.
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We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.
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If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas.
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I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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.
