C. Everett Koop (Charles Everett Koop) Quotes
Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.C. Everett Koop
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
Garth Brooks -
To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
Carles Puigdemont -
If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
Fede Alvarez -
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles -
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz -
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
Adam Mansbach -
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
Fidel Castro -
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
T Bone Burnett -
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu -
Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
Iris Chang -
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
Tammy Bruce
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
Karl Jaspers -
Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
Latrell Sprewell -
Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
Orlando Bloom -
My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
Kajol -
I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
Patricia MacLachlan -
I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.
Nathan Fillion
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He picked out this sentence in a New Yorker casual of mine: 'After dinner, the men moved into the living room,' and he wanted to know why I, or the editors, had put in the comma. I could explain that one all night. I wrote back that this particular comma was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.
James Thurber -
I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.
Peabo Bryson -
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
Mark Zuckerberg -
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Denis Waitley -
I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
Kevin Spacey -
Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.
C. Everett Koop