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Patch Adams Quotes

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 28, 1945

Topics

Suffering Physician Possible Elevate

I know when I make a decision, I'm increasing my own personal work day.

Work Decision Day Know Personal Own

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.

John Frankenheimer

Job You Dead Old Get Come

I don't know how others think about me, but if I have to walk the streets, I will, and if I need to stand in a queue at the airport, that's OK.

Amitabh Bachchan

Walk Me Think Stand Know Airport

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

Funny Humor Culture Yourself Effort

A dream is better than obligation.

Better Dream Obligation Than

Even if you're having a snack, enjoying it in a beautiful teacup or on a lovely plate makes it feel like more of an event.

Mary Helen Bowers

Beautiful Feel You More Lovely Even

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

Michael Mandelbaum

Value City World Buildings Monuments

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

People Me Writing Believe Attention

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Evil Opposition Where

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Work Joy Pride Feel Doing Sometimes

My whole life has been a lie.

Life Lie Whole Been

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

Willie Stargell

Simple Child Pleasures Knew Were

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