I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.


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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it ou...
HAROLD PRINCE
A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
HAROLD PRINCE
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stoppin...
HAROLD PRINCE
When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just...
HAROLD PRINCE
Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great star...
HAROLD PRINCE
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody wh...
HAROLD PRINCE
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, provi...
HAROLD PRINCE
The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad thing...
HAROLD PRINCE
I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move th...
HAROLD PRINCE
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
HAROLD PRINCE
I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really c...
HAROLD PERRINEAU
I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had e...
HAROLD PERRINEAU
You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by ...
HAROLD PERRINEAU
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
HAROLD NICOLSON
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
HAROLD NICOLSON
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ...
HAROLD NICHOLAS
If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th...
HAROLD NICHOLAS
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a stat...
HAROLD MACMILLAN
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
To be alive at all involves some risk.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better...
HAROLD MACMILLAN
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
HAROLD MACMILLAN