Paul Kalanithi Quotes

The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.

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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Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.

Joe Biden

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I still approach every film and role like it's my first.

Sridevi

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My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

Tracy Austin

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What amazes me is that the whole world is fascinated by Kim Kardashian. What's her talent?

Tony Rock

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For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies.

Michael Patrick Hearn

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What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

Louise Mensch

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When I was a young woman, before I moved to New York, working in small, non-Equity theatres in the Midwest, I did a lot of musicals in my early to mid-20s.

Jayne Houdyshell

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In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.

Dianna Agron

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A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

David Viscott

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I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

Bob Seger

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I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Brigitte Bardot

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