Ethel Waters Quotes
I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.
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I have not suffered any nerve damage, nor have I received any treatment for nerve damage.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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In 1998, I received treatment for my knee by an Israeli therapist. We spoke about Israel and I mentioned 'Scooterman' and he just froze. It was like he had met Elvis. I thought he was kidding me and then he called his brother, they yelled to each other over the phone, and then I believed him.
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If you're frightened, you're out of luck.
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Right now, I'm just shocked by it all, the way that it ended. This is weird all the way around. But that's the way it goes. It just got away from us.
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Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.
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That should shock and awaken every American. You have to question what's going on here & The government acts as if they're oblivious to this & The entire enterprise is collapsing.
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
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It was a performance that had been coming for a while and it does not shock me all that much. When the pressure came on we produced the goods and we can take great satisfaction from that.
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I was disappointed and in a little bit of shock. I had a really hard time with a couple of jumps in the warm-up and I just couldn't get over it. I definitely didn't think I was going to get any medal at all at the end of the program, so it was a nice surprise.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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He didn't train today, is receiving a lot of treatment and is still quite sore. I'm expecting an answer sometime tomorrow.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
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The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.
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Diagnostic reliability isn’t an abstract issue: If doctors can’t agree on what ails their patients, there is no way they can provide proper treatment. When there’s no relationship between diagnosis and cure, a mislabeled patient is bound to be a mistreated patient. You would not want to have your appendix removed when you are suffering from a kidney stone, and you would not want have somebody labeled as “oppositional” when, in fact, his behavior is rooted in an attempt to protect himself against real danger.
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We came out flat and everything was off, but once we got rolling we had the game in the bag.
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Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.
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I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
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I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
