Hospitals Quotes - Page 3

• Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

  Growing Up, Home, Numbers

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• If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

  Neal Barnard

  Real, Animal, Rights

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• Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

  Gary Miller

  Doors, Rehabilitation, Pay

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• I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  James McGreevey

  Different, Life Living, Integrated

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• A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Running, Witty

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• I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

  Demetri Martin

  Character, Men, Games

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. January 14, 2007.

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• URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

  Ziggy Marley

  Kids, Giving, Charity

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

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• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  Imelda Marcos

  Home, Years, Two

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

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• I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

  Loretta Lynn

  Smile, People, Trying

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• I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Guy, Hospitality, Speak

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

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• I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

  Dale Evans

  Blessing, Thinking, Bed

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• Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Doctors, Goal, Today

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• For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

  Gerald R. Ford

  School, Men, Ideas

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Doctors, Hospitality, Problem

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

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• Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Book, Getting High, Clubs

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• I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Sympathy, War, Alive

  Speech in the House of Commons, 30 April (1946)

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• I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

  Carrie Fisher

  Imbalance, Chemicals, States

  "PrimeTime: Carrie Fisher Interview". "PrimeTime" with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. December 21, 2000.

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• We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Evil, Segregation

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• I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Dad, Father, Long

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• When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

  Ang Lee

  Son, Trying, Diapers

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.

  Matthew Lesko

  Military, War, Dental Work

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• As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

  Doris Lessing

  Nobel, Prize, Nobel Prize

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• I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, "I can do this." Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.

  Ryan Lochte

  Swimming, Thinking, Mtv

  "Q&A with Golden Goggles winner Ryan Lochte". Interview with Brian Cazeneuve, www.si.com. November 23, 2010.

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• I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

  George Lucas

  Summer, School, College

  "the force". Interview With Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

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• I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

  Princess Diana

  Children, Sick, Dying

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