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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
ROY BLOUNT JR. Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
ROY JR. BLOUNT In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
JERRY KRAMER I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
NATALIE PORTMAN I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
NATALIE PORTMAN I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.
TOM ROBBINS The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cance...
HARMON KILLEBREW These new data from the Mayo Clinic certainly help support the case for using aspirin before surgery...
ERIC TOPOL Women served at this clinic are going to have adequate access to hospitals.
AL GERHARDSTEIN Of Mayo Clinic applicants for nursing positions, 60 percent cite the Magnet award as a factor for ap...
DOREEN FRUSTI There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can g...
TOM BROKAW I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of t...
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JOSE SULAIMAN For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
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VICTOR HUGO No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
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A.A. MILNE Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward.
KATE HARPER My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.
ANDREW RANNELLS I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's...
ERICH SEGAL Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literatu...
JOHN MOSCHITTA I've thought about stayin' around here. That's on my mind. Don't think I hadn't thought about it, 'c...
ALTON WILLIAMS In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and...
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ROY BLOUNT, JR. A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat
ROY BLOUNT, JR. If a cat spoke, it would say things like Hey, I don't see the problem here.
ROY BLOUNT, JR. The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'Th...
ROY BLOUNT JR. Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanks...
ROY BLOUNT JR. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
ROY BLOUNT JR. English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, f...
ROY BLOUNT, JR. According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
ROY BLOUNT, JR. The local groceries are all out of broccoli, Loccoli.
ROY BLOUNT JR. The local groceries are all out of broccoli, Loccoli.
ROY BLOUNT, JR. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
ROY BLOUNT, JR. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another g...
ROY BLOUNT, JR. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another g...
ROY BLOUNT JR. If a cat spoke, it would say things like 'Hey, I don’t see the problem here.
ROY BLOUNT JR. I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a ...
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ROY BLOUNT, JR. When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble te...
ROY BLOUNT, JR. I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that'...
ROY BLOUNT, JR. Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position...
ROY BLOUNT JR. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having anoth...
ROY BLOUNT, JR. Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
ROY BLOUNT, JR. Eaters of Wonder Bread
Must be underbred.
So little to eat.
Where's the wheat?
ROY BLOUNT JR. In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admi...
CATHARINE MACKINNON When we fall in love at a glance, the question we should ask ourselves (and this would apply to both...
ROSEMARY SULLIVAN You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e...
TONI MORRISON If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire...
VICTOR HUGO The only thing is "we are humans" and the best thing is "humans were born to make mistakes" .. so ch...
NEHA KOTHARI It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was...
HENRY JAMES A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test
ANUJ SOMANY If you make it clear that you have a busy, interesting life, but that you'd like to fit her in to yo...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE What you are good at, you never do it free!
DEYTH BANGER A person who has got almost all traits and attributes in-common with the people in his circle is jus...
ANUJ SOMANY A man is at his best when he is simply not like rest in all his life's test
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ANUJ SOMANY For several moments he did not move from the doorway: he heard the girl’s soft, thin voice rise ab...
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THOMAS A. STEITZ Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?
DAVID WONG Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.
NINA DE GRAMONT That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces...
ELLIOTT CARTER In a way, the show is as much about Paul Sachs as it is about Edgar Degas. Indeed, the two are inext...
EDWARD SAYWELL I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.
AJAY NAIDU In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I ...
CATHARINE MACKINNON A stay-at-home mom is a working mom. Being a stay-at-home mom is a job.
COBIE SMULDERS The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to ...
CHARLES VEST I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so fo...
EDGAR MITCHELL There is probably no other member of the House that appears at as many events as Roy.
GREGG HARTLEY We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women...
OKKY MADASARI If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psycho...
CATHY CARUTH At least 75 percent of the people in our community who I see at the clinic have skin cancer.
GRACE MASSAH My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite un...
AMITABH BACHCHAN Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.
AMAL CLOONEY I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like ...
EMMA DONOGHUE We need schools like Doon and Mayo for the poor.
SHIV NADAR At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.
ROBERT T. BAKKER Spanish is like the best class at Hampton High School because she makes learning fun.
DEBRA WILLIAMSON Out of all the T-shirts that are worn to school every day, a student cannot express pride in his Sou...
KIRK LYONS It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
SIR JOHN HARVEY At one point there were five generations of women in our family. They make the women learn how to co...
CONNIE VALDO At the current time, we do not have the space to move the clinic elsewhere.
LYNETTE MUNDEY I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.
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ARUNDHATI ROY Refuse to wave the flag Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse to the dock.
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ARUNDHATI ROY Bring to a boil Add oil Then bomb Ms Roy is author of the God of Small Things.
ARUNDHATI ROY The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.
ARUNDHATI ROY But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone...
ARUNDHATI ROY If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
ARUNDHATI ROY When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them wor...
ROY BENNETT Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.
ROY BENNETT Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations bui...
ROY BENNETT ...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the on...
ARUNDHATI ROY Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
ROY BENNETT Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and ...
ROY BENNETT Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.
ROY BENNETT To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.
ROY BENNETT Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.
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