C. Everett Koop (Charles Everett Koop) Quotes
Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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I will keep working hard!
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.
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I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.
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I give myself pep talks. I have to tell myself how sexy I am - literally every day. I do. I look in the mirror and say, 'You are so sexy,' because everything else in my body is telling me, 'No, you're not.'
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In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him Wally Pfister. I didn't see any virgin blather in screen direction, or anything like that. It was just a wonderfully executed piece, and a complicated one. The mathematics involved in putting this film together, between Jack and Wally, and the great support of Alcon, it was not a easy little operetta.
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Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.
