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Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child.
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been — and will always be — our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.
Self-compassion encourages mindfulness, or noticing your feelings without judgment; self-kindness, or talking to yourself in a soothing way; and common humanity, or thinking about how others might be suffering similarly.
We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people — black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants — to make up America.
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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