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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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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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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There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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If you are famous, single, and actually want to build a relationship that works, don't look to date your co-stars... just ask them to set you up with their agent.
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Baseball, in my opinion, would be a lot better if you could just make the same salary as everybody else in the world, and you don't deal with any of the other stuff. But that's not how it is. The main thing is I want to pitch against the best players in the world, and you can't do that playing in a pickup baseball league in your town.
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Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list.
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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.
