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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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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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that's their job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don't waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around.
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Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance.
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A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.
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The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached any end-of-history ideal. But these events mattered less to the assumptions and strategies of huge multinational companies than one might guess.
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'Nothing he said indicated that he was that angry. I mean, there’s a difference between angry and murderous. Isn’t there?''Less than you’d think.'
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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.
