Richard Dooling Quotes

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.

Richard Dooling

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LifeHealthMedicalCareEndBack

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

Joe Biden

FuturePowerPeaceBalanceWar

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

Merce Cunningham

DoingGradesStudentsGiveWhich

I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'

Amy Klobuchar

DoorBookPresidentNextNext Door

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

Stephen Ambrose

LiveCrazyHorseDeadHeroesOnly

I would never put my songs in a commercial.

Tom Petty

NeverWouldSongsCommercialPut

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

Jose Maria Aznar

BestStrategyDefendConvictionWest

What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them.

Dinesh D'Souza

IdeasBetterAmericanShortDone

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes into people's minds and that's the only place that it ever exists. And it never exists truly; it only exists in the way that people think they remember it. But it's a really powerful way to tell a story and to pass something on.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

PeopleStoryThinkRememberPowerful

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

William Hazlitt

LifeArtEnjoyKnowEndureLittle

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

Sharon Stone

ChangePeopleBehaviorDifference

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

Sharon Stone

ChildrenFriendsSexSayAlways

I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.

Scott Speedman

BadMakeRatherThanFilmsBad Ones

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