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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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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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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Scouts always think they're right. They're not right all the time. They don't even know how hard it is. Most of those scouts never played baseball.
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As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together.
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A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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I was a big aviation buff as a boy.
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A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.
