Abraham Verghese Quotes

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Abraham Verghese

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I never met Paul McCartney.

Jim Sturgess

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It wasn't until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.

John Niven

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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Stephen Mangan

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I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.

Sonny Rollins

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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

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Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848.

Jorge Ramos

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My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

Denzel Washington

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I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.

Deepika Padukone

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My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

David Walton

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I think 'Red Band Society' is unique because not only is it focusing on a pediatric ward, but it's from the view from the patient, not from the view of the doctors. So we're getting to see a whole other side of hospitals and medical series life that we haven't been able to see before.

Ciara Bravo

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The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.

Annie Jacobsen

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I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.

Prodigy

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