Abraham Verghese Quotes

I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.

Abraham Verghese

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I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

John Badham

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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

Moby

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We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

Louise Mensch

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In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Janine di Giovanni

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Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does that very well.

Chris Kilham

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Publilius Syrus

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I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.

Shemar Moore

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The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Ricky Martin

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Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

Noel Fielding

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I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

Nicki Minaj

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A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

Marilynne Robinson

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