Atul Gawande Quotes

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

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• Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Kids
  • Space
  • Crazy

• We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Today
  • Reality

• It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Like
  • Hard
  • Saying

• You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Quality
  • Movies
  • Start

• I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Father
  • Know
  • More

• I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Fashion
  • British
  • Council

• Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • American
  • Culture
  • Day

• Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Trust
  • Thoughts

• I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Man
  • Like
  • Choose

• The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Time
  • Music
  • Kid

• I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • She
  • Dream

• O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• When I awoke in the morning, my mother and Julia Hislop were whispering in a corner. They didn't have to tell me why. I already knew that my father was dead. And when the feeling of peace wore off, the surprise at having known intensified my sense of loss and sorrow. Although I was only nine, I could imagine what death meant. I knew he was gone forever.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Father

• Greatness in art is always a by-product.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Greatness

• There's always 30 or 40 Christians standing around, saying, 'It's a shame that he has to die.' And Jesus is saying, 'Well, maybe I wouldn't have to if somebody would get a ladder and pair of pliers!!'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Die
  • Jesus

• Phoebus is dead, ephebe. But Phoebus was A name for something that never could be named. There was a project for the sun and is.There is a project for the sun. The sun Must bear no name, gold flourisher, but be In the difficulty of what it is to be.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Sun
  • Gold

• Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Passion

• The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Best

• Am I a racist? No. That simple. And if that's not good enough for you, too bad.

  

  Mark Fuhrman
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Simple

• I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.

  

  Frank Zappa

• I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Writing
  • Singing

• If a girl comes on strong and says, 'I really dig your body and I want to f**k the sh*t out of you,' I just decide whether or not I like her. If I do take her home, I try to make sure I get just as much out of it as she does. The word exploited therefore wouldn't apply.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Home
  • She
  • Girl

• If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Thinking
  • Morning
  • Eye

• I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

  

  Atul Gawande