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If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, my patients will not even be postponed. Another surgeon would step in and take over. The reason to do research and writing is that it at least makes me feel not entirely replaceable. If I didn't write, I don't know if I would do surgery.

Atul Gawande

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I like work, I like song writing, and I like the history of Atlantic Records. They've sat in the studio with so many artists - like Ray Charles, for example - and created something amazing. As a label, they seem to be great at growing bands rather than telling you how to do it.

John Gourley

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Any time you're working on big things, you're going to get criticized along the way.

Steve Scalise

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We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!

Trisha Yearwood

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I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.

Tony Gilroy

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Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious.

Russell Smith

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Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

Jay Parini

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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Joseph Addison

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People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Jonathan Davis

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I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

Derek Luke

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I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.

Chevy Chase

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There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

Brownie McGhee

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Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.

Antonin Scalia

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