Richard Carmona Quotes

In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal.

Richard Carmona

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 22, 1949

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When it comes to physical strength, someone may have a stronger upper body than lower body, or a stronger right arm compared to the left arm. Similarly, we're likely to excel in some areas of mental strength while struggling with others.

Amy Morin

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I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.

Stephen Baldwin

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I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.

Tommy Chong

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If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

Tom Snyder

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For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

Martin Parr

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The press always pick on British fashion, but I don't think that there are more successful young designers than in Paris or Milan. It's all a myth.

Louise Wilson

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I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.

Joss Whedon

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Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.

Josh Fox

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The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.

Dexter Filkins

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When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?

Peter Thiel

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I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Seymour Cray

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The film division at Amazon is made up of true cineastes who love movies and really want to try and provide opportunity for independent film visions to find their footing in a vastly shifting market. They love cinema.

Todd Haynes

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