David L. Katz Quotes
We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.
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There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex
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I always wanted to be a professional athlete, it just took me a while to realise it would be in racing. I played field hockey competitively for Ontario since I was 13, 14. Then I tried for the national side and made it. But it was so competitive. The girls were just so big and strong. I was getting crushed.
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What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.
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While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
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Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn’t agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.
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We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.
