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Paul Farmer
Founder, Partners in Health
Paul Farmer: Initially it wasn't in Harvard at all. I'm not sure that we would have anticipated that it would fit in a research university. I wouldn't have guessed that when I was a medical student. And so I'm afraid it was quite conventional to start with. There was the notion that you needed partnership. Again, it's not rocket science. The notion that it would need to be long-term? Not particularly rocket science either. The notion that you have to link a resource-rich setting like Boston or Harvard? That was obvious too, because all of us who were doing any kind of connection were living links between a world of great poverty and a world of affluence.
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Paul Farmer
Founder, Partners in Health
What we need to do is build local capacity. Again, these are almost clichés now in development work. So that meant a Haitian organization, or in Rwanda that means a Rwandan organization, or in Malawi a Malawian organization, et cetera. And that's what we try to do, was to say, "It's not about us. It's not about our own quest for personal efficacy." And again, this may be a lesson that's worth sharing with people who would look at your web site is, "It's gonna feel like it's about you, and your own quest for personal efficacy, or discovery of yourself, but it isn't about you. It's really about the people that you're serving." Those are hard lessons to learn, because -- I don't think -- I'm not just talking about young Americans, but I'm saying, in general, young people who are achievers, who get to go to school, who could even have a computer or electricity, it really puts -- hopefully, I hope that we'll soon see laptops all over the world, and that poor people also have access to information technology. But right now we don't have that. We have this digital divide.
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Suzanne Farrell
Ballerina Extraordinaire
One of the hardest things that I ever had to do was to be in a situation where I suddenly didn't have any real control or any of the stability or security that I had always with the dancing. But I had just recently gotten off crutches and I was determined to walk up to this platform and give this speech, in high heels, even if I was slightly listing to one side, and tell these people about what it was like to be a dancer. And what it was like to be a dancer who couldn't dance any more. And I remember I started to cry because, first of all, I wanted to make my point. I could be admired as a dancer, but I also wanted to be admired as a person. And I said to them that I had to work very hard to become a dancer, but now I had to work even harder to get back any little thing, just to be able to walk, let alone dance.
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Sally Field
Two Oscars for Best Actress
If anybody knows Marty, he was known for being this, like, curmudgeon. So it wasn't like ooey-gooey loving. It wasn't at all. It was, you know, if you complained about anything, he'd say, "Hey Sal, I'll run you a benefit." You know, it was about pick yourself up, dust yourself off and keep on moving. By then it was a kind of practicality about life that I understood, that I appreciated, that I would rather live by. There was no sniveling. You just did your work and then you went home. But you did your work. You didn't make any excuses, you did your work. And I became Norma. I lived there. I learned how to work in the mill. I learned, I lived with the people. I didn't look for anything, I just did my work. I didn't look for anybody to say anything to me, 'cause I wasn't used to anybody saying anything to me really, except, "Get out of the room." And one day Marty came into my little motor home. I was scared that he was coming in, like, what had I done? Had I done something bad? Still terribly afraid and intimidated that somehow I wouldn't be good enough. Somehow I would be found out. I wouldn't be good enough. And he came in and, and sat down for a minute. And I was drinking a coke or something, getting ready to get back out in the heat, and he said, "Sal, I want to tell you " I said, "Yeah?" "You're first rate." And I was so utterly stunned. It was all he said. "You're first rate." And he got up and left. And then it was shattered. It was the most important thing anyone had ever said to me. It changed me and I was forever his daughter, his other child, his protégé. He said few things to me of encouragement, but I knew how deeply he cared. And all I ever did, all I wanted to do, was to be enough for him.
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Sally Field
Two Oscars for Best Actress
These are very, very frightening times. I won an Emmy this year, most especially because my character is the mother of a son who was in harm's way. And if I won it -- there were so many wonderful actors that were nominated for that Emmy -- it was solely because of the impact of what that woman went through. And I owed it to the mothers who wait for their children to come home from harm's way, from danger. And what I said was that, "As I owe this to those mothers, those brave mothers who wait for their children to come home from danger, from harm's way and from war." And they censored "war." It made no sense. And it is really illustrative of Fox. It's really illustrative of some of the networks and corporations that are running our institutions that should not be run by people who are going to say what should be heard and not heard. It's kind of remarkable. The interesting thing was is because I was censored, so many more people heard it. It was huge. It was everywhere. It was huge. It was like the biggest seen thing on YouTube and all of that because they did that. If they would've just allowed me to say that, it was just simple. "From danger, from harm's way, and from war." Duh! And the mothers who stand there and wait for their children to return, how is that political?
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