Denton Cooley Quotes
I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.
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The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships - i.e., the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences.
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The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
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Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's really crazy.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
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I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.
