C. Everett Koop (Charles Everett Koop) Quotes
A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I'm painfully middle class.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.
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A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.
