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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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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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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We all fall in love with someone for the person they are - not because of their race, their hair, or any of the frivolous things that go away in time.
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People need to understand; I may have been very innocent. Didn't understand the devil. Didn't understand any of that. You can only push a child so far. You have laws; number one. And number two; I had been doing this so long, I could say now that I don't want to do something. But after a certain while, they knew when they had pushed their luck with me, and that it was time to, you know, maybe back off.
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Really, I am entirely material driven. If a project appeals to me, I will try to find the right writer and director. And that may be someone I've worked with before, or it may not. It may be a woman, or it may not.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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I have remarked, in the course of such air travel as I have done, that the airmen of all nations have a common resemblance to each other and that the patriotic virus in their blood is largely corrected by a wider professionalism.
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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.
