Doctors Quotes - Page 39

• My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.

  Roger Ailes

  Ugly, Fats, Kill Me

  "Roger Ailes Off Camera". Book by Ze'ev Chafets, www.vanityfair.com. 2013.

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• I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

  John Barrasso

  Want, Patient, Insurance Companies

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• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Ethical Issues, Years

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• I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Thinking, Office, Feelings

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• I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

  Rupert Friend

  Art, Intelligent, Hands

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

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• People from outer space they come up to me, they don't look like Doctor Spock, they don't look like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive. They look like Elvis.

  Mojo Nixon

  Stars, Space, People

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• Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.

  Dolly Parton

  Mistake, Low Self Esteem, Faces

  Song: Gamble Either Way

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• Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

  Tupac Shakur

  Family, Son, Hell Raising

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• DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'

  Gustave Flaubert

  Science, Men, Wizards

  Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again...and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Pain, Play

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• I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

  Michael Chang

  Littles, Months, Kind

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• You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

  Guy Forget

  Careers, Needs, Want

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• I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

  Nancy Grace

  "Dr. Drew" with Ryan Smith, www.cnn.com. November 3, 2011.

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• I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

  Lena Headey

  Beautiful, Hate, Nice

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• As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over. It's a lot more fun, if you get to play lots of different types of characters.

  Tricia Helfer

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "Tricia Helfer Talks TRON: UPRISING and Her TNT Pilot SCENT OF THE MISSING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2012.

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• My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Father, Blue

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• My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

  Greg Iles

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• You just can't take the doctor out of you.

  Ken Jeong

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• When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.

  Ken Jeong

  Night, New Orleans, Comedy

  "Ken Jeong of "The Hangover Part II" The funniest doctor in America makes a house call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 30, 2011.

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• Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.

  William C. Brown

  Trying, Stories, Medical

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• Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl.

  Stevie Wonder

  Girl, Brother, Social Taboos

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• In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

  Alex Kingston

  Children, England, Shows

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• What people really want to know from their doctor is, are you going to make me feel better? And what they really want to know from a president are, are you going to give me some security when it comes to my work? Because if I'm not working, my family is in trouble. And when I am working, the fact of the matter is, my whole family is doing better.

  John Kasich

  Feel Better, Giving, People

  "Interview with Ohio Governor John Kasich". "The John King, USA Show", realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Pain, Thinking, Threshold

  "Johnny Knoxville's house of pain" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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• I do fear God, but I will also tell you that when a doctor diagnoses you and the word 'cancer' comes out of his mouth, at that point, it changes your life and you do fear less and it also has allowed me to be a lot more open as a person. It's changed me.

  Joe Lhota

  Cancer, Mouths, Diagnosis

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