Hans Rosling Quotes

My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.

Hans Rosling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: July 27, 1948 - February 7, 2017

Topics

FriendBestMedicalSchoolMeX-Ray

Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough.

Joe Cowley

EnoughLongOnlyEvenBeforeAround

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeMarriageFatherMotherParents

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

Robert Rauschenberg

ChanceEndSpiritNeverUpGone

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Angela Davis

TimeRacismKindMoreHiddenSame

Great weight should be given to the judgment of professionals on what information, if disclosed, would harm national security.

Michael Hayden

GreatInformationSecurityJudgment

Yes, there is an image people have of me, that I did only sweet boy roles. With 'Ek Villain,' I got the opportunity to break out from this image. It is a way of answering my critics, to tell them I am here to perform and not just for glamour.

Sidharth Malhotra

OpportunityI AmPeopleMeSweet

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

Tori Amos

MusicScholarshipTwoPianoPlaying

I try not to worry about what people think and what people think I should do each fight, how impressive I need to be. I need to go out there and win; that's what it comes down to.

Robbie Lawler

FightPeopleWinThinkWorryDown

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

Rufus Wainwright

LifeWorkLoveFatherMotherThree

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

Martin Parr

WorkPressureHolidaysHolidayGo

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

Joyce Maynard

ChildhoodJoyOldYearsForgotten

To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.

Jonathan Levine

LoveMusicMeCreatingAudience

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