Doctors Quotes - Page 38

• I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

  Colin Baker

  Facts, Kind, Well Known

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• I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

  Colin Baker

  Brother, Two, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

  Kathy Bates

  Mother, Stories, Corny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Firsts, Medication, Medicare

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• As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Girl, Dream, One Day

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• Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Dirty, Healing, Talking

  "Chile’s New President Outlines Goals". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2006.

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• Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

  Phil Bredesen

  Heartache, Cost, Firsts

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• When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Art, Giving Up, Couple

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• I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

  Toni Braxton

  Mean, Heart, Firsts

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

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• I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

  Eoin Colfer

  Television, Unusual, Shows

  "Writing my very own Doctor Who". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.

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• Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid to those suffering from hunger and/or malnutrition worldwide.

  Cat Cora

  Ocean, Humanity, India

  "Climbing a Mountain for Hunger" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

  Freema Agyeman

  Marine, Young, Wanted

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2008.

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• I'm fully aware that 'Doctor Who' will always, always be part of my life, and that's not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely.

  Freema Agyeman

  Running, Pride, Doctor Who

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2008.

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• Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.

  Jim Cooper

  Average, Ideas, Two

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• Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family living (at times a little uneasily) the American dream, and even a love story. A great read and a valuable addition to the literature—and I use the word advisedly—of medical training.

  Melvin Konner

  Dream, Training, Stories

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• My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

  Peter Diamandis

  Father, Islands, Greek

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

  Peter Diamandis

  Country, Way, Enough

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, School, Careers

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• I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.

  Michelle Forbes

  New York, Talking, Years

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• I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.

  Paula Fox

  Writing, Voice, People

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• Being in Doctor Who has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.

  Karen Gillan

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

  "Scots actress Karen Gillan excited and scared for life after Doctor Who". Interview with Rick Fulton, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. January 21, 2012.

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• The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.

  Chuck Grassley

  Advice, Drug, Financial

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• My father was a doctor.

  David Alan Grier

  Father

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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• Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

  Jim Gerlach

  School, Reform, Cost

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• Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Believe, Writing, Psychics

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