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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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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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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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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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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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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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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One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
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With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
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The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.
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p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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Il n'est pas difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I was a horrible student.
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If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.
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I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.
