C. Everett Koop (Charles Everett Koop) Quotes
In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.
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You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
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In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.
