Atul Gawande Quotes

The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.

Atul Gawande

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HeartBrainSurviveBodyBloodDays

When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.

Jim Harrison

WriteLikeHumansAroundI Write

Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.

Jochen Zeitz

BusinessYouResourcesDestroyed

Even a child, if he looks at a map of the world, can point out that the Indonesian archipelago forms one unity. On the map, there can be shown a unity of the group of islands between two great oceans - the Pacific Ocean and the Indies Ocean - and between two continents - the continent of Asia and the continent of Australia.

Sukarno

GreatOceanChildUnityWorldLooks

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

Steven Pinker

PossibilitiesViolenceInequality

My favorite food is macaroni and cheese that my grandma makes. My favorite drink has to be Vita Coco coconut water.

Sloane Stephens

WaterFoodCheeseDrinkCoconut

If I could be living anywhere now, it would be in New York. My heart is in that city.

Troian Bellisario

HeartNew YorkCityNewNowLiving

I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.

Trent Reznor

GreatStartThinkProcessFirstUp

In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.

David Shields

BeginningWritingEarlyLateThree

Trying to get somebody to read your script and you're a musician? That's the last person whose script you're gonna read!

Boots Riley

TryingYouPersonLastGetWhose

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Rock And RollBluesRockRhythmUp

I simply didn't believe we needed a constitutional amendment to protect women's rights. I knew of only one law that was discriminatory toward women, a law in North Dakota stipulating that a wife had to have her husband's permission to make wine.

Phyllis Schlafly

WomenWifeLawHusbandBelieveWine

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

Peter Marino

WorkArtArchitectureDesignNow

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