Abraham Verghese Quotes

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

Abraham Verghese

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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

Jimmy Wales

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I'm not a god, I'm just a simple guy.

Tommy Wiseau

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If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.

Tommy Shaw

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The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.

Mike Pence

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For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

Michael Sheen

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The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

Dayananda Saraswati

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When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

David Tennant

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Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.

Christopher Monckton

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I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.

Brian Grazer

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What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

William Wilberforce

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Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

Philip Treacy

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I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

Pearl Cleage

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