Mehmet Oz Quotes
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I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.
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As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
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Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.
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You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.
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I've got so many weaknesses.
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Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
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Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.
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There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.
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It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
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If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.
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We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
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A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.
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I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.
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We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.
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People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.
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The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.
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No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.
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Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.
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In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.
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The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.
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Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.
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I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.
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You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.
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Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.