Atul Gawande Quotes
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
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I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.
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The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.
