Doctors Quotes - Page 35

• Some people think they're depressed and they go to the doctor and want pills. And you just think: 'You hate where you live, you've lost your job, your boyfriend has dumped you, could all this be why you're depressed?'

  Graham Norton

  Jobs, Hate, Thinking

  "The name's Norton. Graham Norton" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor’s office and make people sick.

  Moms Mabley

  Husband, People, Sick

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• Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I don’t feel alive unless I’m performing, and that’s just the way I was born.

  Lady G

  Healthy, Alive, Way

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• As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

  Donald Berwick

  Careers, People, Helping

  "Berwick announces run for governor" by Joanne Kenen, www.politico.com. June 17, 2013.

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• As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

  Hugh Ferriss

  Blood, Cities, Promise

  Hugh Ferriss (2012). “The Metropolis of Tomorrow”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less than the diagnosis and cure of the human malady. We follow twelve generations of New York City's Steenwycks family through their forays into phrenology, mesmerism, radium therapy and similar misadventures, a historically rich narrative that Menger-Anderson delivers in striking, elegant prose and with a sure eye for detail. This is a remarkable debut by a writer to watch.

  Ben Fountain

  New York, Eye, Cities

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• So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Abortion, Patient, Republican

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• My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

  Claude Chabrol

  Father, Medicine, Pharmacist

  "Surfer on the new wave" by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.

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• There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

  Fidel Castro

  Care, Enough, Planets

  "The Heroes of Our Time" by Fidel Castro, www.globalresearch.ca. October 7, 2014.

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• I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.

  Seve Ballesteros

  Golf, Different, Answers

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• I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, People, Environment

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• A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.

  Arthur Miller

  Boys, Dollars, World

  Arthur Miller (1947). “All My Sons: Drama in Three Acts”, p.10, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, War, Military

  "A Vindication of Natural Society". Book by Edmund Burke, 1756.

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• I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor - even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero - that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun.

  Bill Hicks

  Dream, Hero, Heart

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

  Alastair Campbell

  Media, Medicine, Obsessed

  "Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

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• There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It's exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Trying, Connections, Politician

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• Talk with your doctor, make healthy lifestyle choices and most importantly, know your body - as that can make all the difference in the world.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Lifestyle Choices, Differences, Healthy

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• After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.

  Stan Brakhage

  Opportunity, Average, Hands

  Stan Brakhage (1982). “Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980”, Treacle Pr

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• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  Barbara Boxer

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.

  Trent Reznor

  Bipolar, Mood, Lows

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• I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

  John Wycliffe

  Sacred Scripture, Holy, Conviction

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• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  George Devol

  Men, Blow, Iron

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• Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one instance where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life. If toward the end of the pregnancy complications arise that threaten the mother's health, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Caesarean section. His intention is to save the life of both the mother and the baby. The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

  C. Everett Koop

  Life, Mother, Baby

  "‘Yes to Life! No to Abortion!’ Tens of Thousands March Against Abortion in Spain" by Heather Clark, christiannews.net. November 23, 2014.

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• Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

  Joycelyn Elders

  White, People

  M. Joycelyn Elders (1996). “Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America”, William Morrow

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• You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Thinking, Black, Clerks

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