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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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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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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With more women in the workplace and in positions of power and leadership, with the legalization of gay marriage and the emerging liberation of the LGBTQ community, traditional definitions of masculinity are changing for the better.
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We want to see women in more power positions, not just in front of the screen but behind the screen as well.
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Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.
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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.
