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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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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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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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Of course, there are some things you keep personal and private because you're a human being. But on the other side of it, I ain't got time to be hiding nothing and all that. It is what it is.
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In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.
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Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.
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You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who has different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can disappear. And the other people would take it, not giving support.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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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.
