C. Everett Koop (Charles Everett Koop) Quotes
That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.
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The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
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Si nec blanda satis, nec erit tibi comis amanti,Perfer et obdura: postmodo mitis erit.Flectitur obsequio curvatus ab arbore ramus:Frangis, si vires experiere tuas.Obsequio tranantur aquae: nec vincere possisFlumina, si contra, quam rapit unda, nates.
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Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)
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I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.
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That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.
