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“I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.”

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Richard Dawson was a British-American actor best known for his performance on the television show 'Family Feud'. His career spanned film, television, and stage, and he was celebrated for his unique humor and versatility. more

“And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.”

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Author:Richard Dooling

“As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us.”

Ideas Sound Differences Dangerous Right Now Picks Offensive Associates Dangerous Things Dangerous Ideas

Author:Richard Dooling

“As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?”

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Author:Richard Dooling

“I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical Care' for years. I would go for a whole year and not touch it. And then I'd go back to it.”

Years Firsts Whole Care Wanted Critical Whole Year

Author:Richard Dooling

“I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.”

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Author:Richard Dooling

“I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.”

People Thinking Want Should Government Able Law Given Situation Instinct Appropriate Swear Federal Government Swearing

Author:Richard Dooling

“I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.”

Kind Limits Taxes Waste Computer Phones Always Working Answering The Phone

Author:Richard Dooling

“Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.”

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Author:Richard Dooling

“The first thing I became interested in in terms of 'Brain Storm' was neuroscience, and that is like saying you're interested in the universe. So ultimately I knew if I was going to handle this in a fictional format, I would have to take a subsection of neuroscience, and that turned out to be the use of neuroscience in criminal courts.”

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Author:Richard Dooling

“The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.”

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Author:Richard Dooling

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