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"For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act."
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"To act is to anchor in the imminent future."
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"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."
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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
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"I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do."
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"It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over."
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"We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies."
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"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."
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"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good."
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"Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me."
Criticism
"I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory."
Religion
"At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease."
Time
"It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care."
Medical
"But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists."
Activism
"The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right."
Human Rights
"I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality."
Health
"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care."
Health
"Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water."
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"The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view."
Human Rights
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