Bennet Omalu Quotes

What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!

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• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • First

• We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.

  

  Abdallah Salem el-Badri
  • Start
  • Need
  • Invest

• As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Child

• The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Possible
  • Someone
  • Reach

• It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Win

• There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Reality
  • Pain
  • Thought

• We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Game
  • Change
  • Cards

• All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Culture
  • Mean
  • Africa

• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Control
  • Happiness
  • Beyond

• The advertising market in China is big and is still growing at a considerable pace. While online video is emerging as a mainstream advertising solution, it still represents a relatively small portion of advertising budget in China.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Small
  • Growing
  • Advertising

• Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Boxing

• I became one of the stately homos of England.

  

  Quentin Crisp

• She can’t help her red skin, and she isn’t heathen. In fact, she’s a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Help
  • Christian

• The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• Whenever you make a figure of a man or of some graceful animal remember to avoid making it seem wooden; that is it should move with counterpoise and balance in such a way as not to seem a block of wood.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Remember
  • Balance
  • Animal

• On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to women's social morals. As a rule, these have been focused on the family and on charity - among other reasons, because woman's sense of duty seldom finds means of expression in other directions.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • Family
  • Experience

• Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Imagination
  • Shoes

• They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Dog
  • Cute

• People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

  

  Bill Gross
  • People
  • Different
  • Reality

• I am glad that my weight never affected my singing career, but other than this, I faced a lot problems: like, I was unable to talk for 20 minutes after coming down from the stage after my shows. I got very tired because of my fatness.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Tired

• Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Life
  • Why
  • Growth

• What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!

  

  Bennet Omalu