Alice Dreger Quotes

What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.

Alice Dreger

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My time in New England was great. I thank them for everything.

Jimmy Garoppolo

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I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.

Joe Bonamassa

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The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

John Buchanan Robinson

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Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

Melissa Etheridge

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If the artist isn't having a great day or finds it all boring, my role becomes that of a coach. Getting the very best out of the artist. Helping them perform at their very best when it's game time. One way to get them there is to bring them out of their comfort zones.

Max Martin

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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Robert Staughton Lynd

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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

Anand Giridharadas

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When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

Tom Perez

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I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

Robin Hobb

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It was 1995, the year Ben Crenshaw won the Masters. I was watching on TV, and I remember watching him sink his final putt on the 18th hole. He broke down in tears because his coach, Harvey Penick, had just died. I sat there watching with a box of Kleenex, wiping tears from my eyes and going, 'OK, this is crazy - I'm crying over golf!'

Rocky Carroll

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I think what's wrong with too many people is they're too reserved. They're miserable, but they don't want to talk about it.

Brittany Howard

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You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.

Anohni

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