C. Everett Koop (Charles Everett Koop) Quotes
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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We think about the enormous costs of homelessness, or the enormous cost of HIV/AIDS, over the long term, as people visit emergency rooms, etc. The more we are investing in that ounce of prevention the better off we're going to be.
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There are jobs that come along in your life, if you're lucky enough, that elevate you in a considerable way. And 'Homeland' was definitely one of those jobs.
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Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
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Fortunately, economists open to new ways of thinking are finding novel ways to use supposedly irrelevant factors to make the world a better place.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
