Atul Gawande Quotes
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.
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I've sung in the shower for years.
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If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
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There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.
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George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
