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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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
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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.
