C. Walton Lillehei Quotes
I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
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A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.
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'Marley Dias Gets It Done - And So Can You' is a book about how girls who are 10 and up - and everyone who is 10 and up, basically - can use their gifts and talents to help the world in a way that's unique to them.
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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
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In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
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I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.
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I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.
