Richard Selzer Quotes

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

Richard Selzer

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We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.

Andrea Mackris

MeSayingRestaurantBackWayTalk

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

Andrew Bird

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Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Max Muller

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It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the fly is going to jump when it first sees your swatter.

Michael Dickinson

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History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

Amy Waldman

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The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

Robert Fulghum

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It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy E. Disney

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Miguel de Cervantes

TimeDeathWillThingsWellSure

Having worked on 'Halo: Nightfall' and gotten a taste for what 'Halo' has to offer, it definitely has me interested in picking up the games and getting familiarized more with the 'Halo' universe.

Mike Colter

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I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and try to cling to one aspect of that identity to describe what they are: American, Republican, Muslim. These are really incomplete.

Mohsin Hamid

IdentityPeopleThinkAmericanStop

If you get a good comedy once a year, man, that's pretty good. I may be pickier than some, but still, there aren't that many movies that are really, truly, honestly that funny.

Michael Keaton

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I think the American public wants to see a change. They want a fresh start.

Jason Chaffetz

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