Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes

I think you would have to be a nihilist to say that we are not making progress on cancer, just like you'd have to be hubristically optimistic to say that we have conquered cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Do you know there are at least seven ways to view Niagara Falls ... one of the natural wonders of the world?

Joan Lingard

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Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

Jennifer Ellison

GodShoesMeDoingNewThree

Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a real alternative.

Jeremy Corbyn

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My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.

Sue Miller

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My father is black - was black. My mother is white.

Stromae

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When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is.

Tony Rock

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There's no need to make any film. The word 'need' is pretty strong. But if there's a purpose behind making the film, there can be a justification for it.

Rod Lurie

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I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

Rudolf Bing

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I love '80s beats; everyone does.

Julia Holter

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Football is a game of business. You don't work for free.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going to be. Very few things just happen. They grow out of history, and they grow out of the present, and the more we can get a sense of how our actions lead into other actions in the future, hopefully we'll learn to make better decisions.

Deborah Ellis

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My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Chuck Palahniuk

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