C. Everett Koop (Charles Everett Koop) Quotes
When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.
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Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.
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The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.
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When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
