"When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part."

-- Atul Gawande

#Symphony Quotes #People Quotes #Half Quotes

“It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene”
“There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.”

Source : Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2008). “The Eyes of the Want”, p.174, Simon and Schuster
“I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.”
“If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?”
“I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.”

Source : Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books
“If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses”
“I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.”
“I have never done jewelry before so, of course, I had an idea in mind, but I needed it to be feasible and I don't really know about the materials, like what's possible, what's not possible.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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