Abraham Verghese Quotes

There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

Abraham Verghese

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TeacherShoesMeMomentsMentorOut

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

Jo Brand

BookFatThroughHalfwayGotRead

We're surrounded by big problems and people who have been attacking the same big problems for years and years and years and years, and often they're not getting anywhere.

Stephen J. Dubner

PeopleProblemsSameYearsBigBeen

I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.

Steve Ballmer

GrowthHistoryAmazingFinancial

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.

Tom Hodgkinson

WorkMotherWomenSonFreedomGrind

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

Robert Battle

CommunityCulturePoetryRootsSong

We are tomorrow's past.

Mary Webb

PastTomorrow

What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

Mary Barra

LifeJobRestOwnershipYouSay

Donors need to know what their money is being used for.

Michel Martelly

MoneyKnowNeedUsedBeingDonors

I like Ryan McGinley's work.

Juergen Teller

WorkLikeRyan

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.

Jascha Heifetz

PeopleWishYouFindArgumentSide

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

Douglas Brinkley

YouReadyGoWantEnemiesRuthless

'Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.

Deborah Tannen

WordsWrongRightRight And Wrong

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