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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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
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[Donald Trump] is in the process of building up an organization. And well, we'll have to see how that works. And it'll be a test, I think, for him and the people that he's designated to be able to execute on his vision.
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
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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.
