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David Mixner Quotes

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

David Mixner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 16, 1946

Topics

Research New Sales Altruism Out Up

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

Amy Chua

Future Children Do The Right Thing

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

Travis Bradberry

Leader Vision Time People You Burn

What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.

Mary Beard

Truth Speak Think Wrong Sometimes

I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.

Janette Turner Hospital

I Am People Resilience Exploring

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.

Douglas Preston

God Sea Writing Book Thinking Facts

After a few drinks, my mom would recite her lines as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice' from her high school play. But I first discovered Shakespeare properly when I was about five. I used to look for the most complicated books I could find and pretend to be reading them. I wanted people to think I was smart.

Chris Adrian

School Smart People Mom Reading

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Christopher Columbus

Home Man I Am World Trees Unhappy

Success is based on your perspective.

CM Punk

Success Perspective Success Is Your

I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission.

Claude Nicollier

Happy Feel Mission I Feel Part Very

I'm so uncoordinated.

Brett Eldredge

Time Creative Singing Song Start

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Bruce Jackson

Architecture Bridges Invisible Most

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

Portia de Rossi

Life I Am Rich Career Gay Living