Patch Adams
Patch Adams
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adamsis an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
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And yet the influence of the adult world--this is the pain paradigm shouting -- serious is what you want to be taken,
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You have a brilliant mind, and like many brilliant people you don't necessarily think the rules apply,
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We love our patients and our patients love us. You don't sue someone you love.
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It's humiliating that a person who kicks a ball makes more money than a school teacher.
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They want to have a fabulous listener, they want sweet tenderness and no sense that you are in a hurry,
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The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
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Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.
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Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
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It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
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I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
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Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.