Surgery Quotes - Page 16

• The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.

  Robert Solow

  Mean, Perfect, Brain

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• Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.

  Joseph Murray

  Animal, Joints, Essentials

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• [when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

  Robin Williams

  Thanksgiving, Heart, Family And Friends

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• If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

  Brian Austin Green

  Looks, Able, Realizing

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• I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

  Michael Crichton

  Blood, Drawing, Literature

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.25, Vintage

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• Soccer isn't brain surgery, have fun.

  Michelle Akers

  Soccer, Fun, Brain

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• Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.

  Erik Larson

  Dream, Fear, Sleep

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• Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.

  Jim Gerlach

  Senior, Long, Gone

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• I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

  Atul Gawande

  Kind, Wanted, Persons

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• The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Body

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse.

  Dennis Miller

  Jobs, Work, People

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• We have hearing aids in order to fix our ears. We have lasik surgery in order to fix our eyes. People ... you can't fix stupid!

  Ron White

  Stupid, Eye, Order

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• I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

  Shaun White

  Crazy, Heart, Mean

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• I'm happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I'm not happy to get surgery, but I'm happy that I can focus on getting better.

  Dwyane Wade

  Focus, Get Better, Body

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• I don't want plastic surgery or fillers or Botox.

  Sofia Vergara

  Botox, Want, Plastic

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• I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

  Sheryl Crow

  People, Plastic, I Can

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• Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.

  Cindy Crawford

  Fashion, Brain, Style

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

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• I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

  Sean Connery

  Jobs, People, Brain

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

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• Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

  Deepak Chopra

  Drug, Done, Kind

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 1)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

  Deepak Chopra

  Everyday Routine, Medicine, Drug

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 3)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.

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• The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

  Dick Cheney

  Heart, Three, Gone

  "Exclusive: Dick Cheney opens up about heart disease battle in new book". "Hannity" with Seah Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2013.

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• You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

  Kim Cattrall

  Careers, People, Age

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• Economics is not brain surgery.

  Benjamin Carson

  Brain, Neurosurgeons, Wise Words

  "Even if being president were brain surgery, you wouldn't want Ben Carson doing it" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2015.

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• I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

  Jello Biafra

  Writing, Style, Phases

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• I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

  Halle Berry

  Thinking, Way, Slippery Slope

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