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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When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'
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I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming.
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We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
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A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.
