Atul Gawande Quotes
You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
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So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.
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You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life
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You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.
