Heart Surgery Quotes

• Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Open Heart, Surgery

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Taken, Food, Thinking

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• Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

  Roger Ebert

  Heart, People, Typical

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• I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

  Josh Ryan Evans

  Heart, Three, Pins

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• When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Reading, Heart

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• [when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

  Robin Williams

  Thanksgiving, Heart, Family And Friends

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• I would never do hard-core pornography, because it looks too much like open-heart surgery.

  John Waters

  Heart, Looks, Too Much

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.

  David Letterman

  Memories, Heart, Loss

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• Let's face it, the human body is like a condominium apartment. The thing that keeps you really enjoying it is the maintenance. There's a tremendous amount of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly work that has to be done. From showering to open heart surgery, we're always doing something to ourselves. If your body was a used car, you wouldn't buy it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Heart, Car, Faces

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• The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

  Dick Cheney

  Heart, Three, Gone

  "Exclusive: Dick Cheney opens up about heart disease battle in new book". "Hannity" with Seah Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2013.

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• How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

  Robin Williams

  Honesty, Heart, Who I Am

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• Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.

  Robin Williams

  War, Heart, Viagra

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". Documentary, www.imdb.com. December 6, 2009.

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• I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.

  Magdi Yacoub

  Children, Heart, Target

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• I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

  Merle Haggard

  Heart, Years, Giving

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• To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed

  Amir Sulaiman

  Rip, Writing, Heart

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• So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools

  Julianna Baggott

  Heart, Personality, Tools

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".

  Ken Robinson

  Heart, Kids, Home

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• My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

  Nick Cassavetes

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

  Interview With Scott B., www.ign.com. February 14, 2002.

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• Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.

  Guy Clark

  Song, Fun, Fall

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• I've done millions of mediocre movies. I've done way more than my fair share. You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put my kids through school.

  Ron Perlman

  Cancer, Heart, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're a doctor), then you realize they're actually talking about actually talking about themselves. The patient's open-heart surgery is nothing compared to their own messed-up heart or whatever. It's selfish. And means they're not concentrating, which is medical negligence.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Hate, Selfish, Mean

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Ghosts Of Ashbury High”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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