Doctors Quotes - Page 12

• If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Smart, Player

  Dick Butkus (1997). “Butkus: Flesh and Blood”, Doubleday Books

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• The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.

  Norman Cousins

  Recovery, Enabling, Ingredients

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Get Well Soon, Modern Life, Bills

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• 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

  Joe Lieberman

  Baseball, Country, Teacher

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• The doctor is the servant and the interpreter of nature. Whatever he thinks or does, if he follows not in nature's footsteps he will never be able to control her.

  Giorgio Baglivi

  Nature, Science, Thinking

  Introduction to De Praxi Medica (1696)

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• Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

  Joycelyn Elders

  Teaching, White, People

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• The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always observed, the doctors preached, and Martyrs and confessors witnessed. This is the Church I believe to be true.

  Margaret Clitherow

  Believe, Church, Christ

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• A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not the witch doctor of a tribe who knows everything. He is a civil servant. I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.

  Jose Mujica

  Kings, Powerful, Humble

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• Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Morning, Taken, Technology

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• As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, Mother, Art

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• Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wallets, Fats, Scalpels

  Reagan, Ronald (1984). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 198”, p.709, Best Books on

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• My tricks are, I get Botox in my forehead-I just have my doctor do a little shot there. if you overdo, it looks bad. I believe in just a little bit. It allows you to keep that mobility in your face. It's a great little secret.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Believe, Secret, Looks

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• A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."

  Benjamin Franklin

  Republic, Drs, Franklin

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• No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

  Florence Nightingale

  Horse, Nursing, Men

  Notes on Nursing (1860)

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• I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

  Jeremy Irons

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Christian, Nursing, Differences

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• The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

  Jodi Picoult

  War, Nursing, Games

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

  Elyn Saks

  School, Law, Yale

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• I am delighted to join Doctor Who and to be working with this incredible team. Ms Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing.

  Keeley Hawes

  Fun, Team, Character

  "Why Keeley Hawes is the perfect choice for a Doctor Who villain" by Dan Martin, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2014.

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• I just went to the doctor today, I got a chest X-ray of my lungs and discovered that my breasts are uneven.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Today, Rays, Candid

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• Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody's like "How can you remain with a level head?". And I'm like "Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I'm making movies. It's stupid."

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Running, Stupid

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

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• At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.

  Arsenio Hall

  Children, Careers, Might

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• The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say

  Patty Duke

  Talking, Risk, Might

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• Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.

  Nick Offerman

  Phds, Meetings, Appointments

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• Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

  Julia Roberts

  Office, Stories, Botox

  "Julia Roberts: I’m A Hindu, I Don’t Believe In Botox". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2010.

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