Pacemakers Quotes

• The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.

  Minnie Pearl

  Husband, Kissing, Doctors

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• Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

  Richard Dooling

  Care, End Of Life, Ends

  "Op-Ed: Cut Health Care Spending On The Elderly". "Talk of the Nation" with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. August 17, 2009.

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• I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

  Kamisese Mara

  Heart, Aggravation, Deterioration

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• This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?

  Jerry Lewis

  Pain, Fall, Cutting

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• At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

  Aimee Mullins

  Glasses, Age, Hips

  "US Paralympics TV coverage disappointing, says chef de mission" by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

  Brian Greene

  Appreciate, Quality, Benefits

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• I have a pacemaker in, but it doesn't work very well, because every time I fart the garage door opens.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Doors

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• The phone is gonna disappear. Maybe it will be a bracelet. After the bracelet it will be a blood cell sized device that maybe gets installed. We already have people with Parkinson's that have chips installed in their brain to control their tremors. We already see people have pacemakers to help their heartbeats. I mean we're already putting these technologies into our bodies. It is only going to deepen.

  Jason Silva

  Mean, Technology, Phones

  "Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview With Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mean, Doe, Want

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• My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They're still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens.

  Bob Hope

  Doors, Making Love, Next

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• Already in 2007 I thought I would be able to break the World record in the near future. That time Sammy Tangui was the pacemaker in Lausanne. I liked the way he was running. He is tall, he has a strong body and his stride is similar to mine. I told him in one of the coming years I would need him when I try to break the World record.

  David Rudisha

  Running, Strong, Years

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• We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, America

  "Interventionist approach will be the first casualty of new regime" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2000.

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