Paul Kalanithi Quotes

The diagnosis was immediate: Masses matting the lungs and deforming the spine. Cancer. In my neurosurgical training, I had reviewed hundreds of scans for fellow doctors to see if surgery offered any hope. I'd scribble in the chart 'Widely metastatic disease - no role for surgery,' and move on. But this scan was different: It was my own.

Paul Kalanithi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1977 - March 9, 2015

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HopeTrainingMove OnMy OwnSee

I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

John Allison

PeopleCollegeStartFeelNewOut

We don't do lots of jamming on stage, but I think we have the attitude of exploring things and trying something new.

Anderson East

AttitudeThinkTryingNewExploring

Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.

Andre Previn

MusicSchoolGoKindWriteKids

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

Mel Brooks

MeStoryThinkArmySomewhereFilm

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

John Selden

ExcessDrinkingBlamed

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

Tom Chatfield

IntelligenceBraveWorldLookingNew

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

Bonnie Tyler

FashionYouKnowWhyNeverOut

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

Brittany Murphy

SingingVoiceSpeakingLike

Historically, over the last two or three hundred years, the relationship that we've had with money as a society - having money, talking about money - has been a little bit of a shameful thing. Splashing money about is clearly wrong, but there's nothing wrong about giving it back.

Arpad Busson

RelationshipMoneySocietyTalking

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

Phil Ramone

WorkTimeMeFeelArtistThings

I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.

Pauly Shore

TimeCameraUniqueFirstOutTake

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Norman Douglas

FoolLieManWiseWise ManBetter

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