Surgery Quotes - Page 11

• Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

  Jay Samit

  Self, Disruption, Scalpels

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

  Richard Selzer

  Flower, Technology, Medicine

  Richard Selzer (1996). “Letters to a Young Doctor”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was this one time in Vegas when I took four Victoria's Secret models and did one gram off each of their bodies within, like, 45 minutes. I declared myself King of Vegas and decided to remodel my hotel room with my bare hands to resemble King Louis XIV's bedroom at Versailles. Knocked down two entire walls, and later had four knuckle surgeries. Still wasn't as high as Rob Ford.

  Charlie Sheen

  Kings, Wall, Vegas

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• Everyone also needs to realize that business is not rocket science. Everything that you haven't done before, you don't know it because you haven't done it before. It's not brain surgery and you figure it out as you do it.

  Sarah Wright

  Brain, Needs, Done

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• I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Believe, Plastic, Should

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• If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

  Shannen Doherty

  Thinking, Want, Overboard

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• At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken.

  Jessica Biel

  Taken, Doctors, Blood

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• I'd like to refocus everyone's attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1.2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U.N. soldiers dumped s- from their Porta-Potties into the river. That's a f-ing scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so's plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I'd feel better about our future.

  Olivia Wilde

  Cheating, Feel Better, Rivers

  "Olivia Wilde Knows What A Real Scandal Is" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

  Rachael Ray

  Running, Morning, Years

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• Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Moving, Always Trying, People

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• It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

  Lili Taylor

  Plastic, Plastic Surgery, Tricky

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• I'm all for women who get plastic surgery, because plastic surgery allows you to make your outer appearance resemble your inner appearance — fakeWe have shows like Extreme Make-Over: “I
  don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

  "True Stories I Made Up". Audio CD Album, 2005.

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• If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward.

  Vladimir Putin

  Islamic, Doe, Moscow

  "The EU's Chechnya challenge" by Andrew Osborn, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.

  Sam Kean

  War, Cutting, Men

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• I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

  Eva Herzigova

  Reconstruction

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• It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

  Hippocrates

  Cancer, Dark, Long

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• ...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Cancer, Dark, Simple

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• The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.

  Denton Cooley

  Real, Simple, Men

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in the highest level of power differential, your preferences are so manipulated that you act against your own interests, but you are content. Elective [meaning requested for no medical reason, not to be confused with needed surgery planned in advance] repeat cesarean exemplifies that highest level.

  Henci Goer

  Confused, Fighting, Winning

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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• I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Thinking, Cameras, Looks

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• I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.

  Florence King

  Jobs, Book, Expression

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• An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around the mouth. Working daily on forgiveness (forgiving oneself as well as one's enemies) is the cheapest, most effective facelift in the whole wide world. All it requires is love and discipline.

  Sarah Miles

  Discipline, Forgiving, Enemy

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• There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

  John Powell

  Brain, Rockets, Myth

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• It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Funny, Brain, Nuclear

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.

  Nora Ephron

  Fall, Years, People

  "Get real - ageing's not all Helen Mirren". Christopher Goodwin, The Times (UK), March 4, 2007.

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