Dean Ornish Quotes
People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle. What we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. And they often are.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.
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I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
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One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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We Americans are idealists. We are willing to follow the truth solely because it is the truth. We put our main emphasis on the things which are spiritual. While we possess an unsurpassed skill in marshaling and using the material resources of the world, still the nation has not sought for wealth and power as an end but as a means to a higher life.
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Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.
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Put your shoulder to the wheel.
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I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.
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Even though there's only two guys in the band, when both of us are on the same page about something, you can't really change our minds.
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There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.
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In Clintonese, that would be 'You are free to infer that I was saying that.'
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The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.
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You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
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People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle. What we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. And they often are.
