Bob Barr Quotes

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.

Bob Barr

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I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.

Joan Didion

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There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.

Jerry Della Femina

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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

John M. Ford

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Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs.

Robert Reich

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Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.

Steve Erickson

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All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.

Roger Rees

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The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game.

Mary Hart

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There are more kids playing hockey, and the game has become more diverse from a cultural, ethnic and geographic point of view, but we still don't have a lot of congressmen.

Mike Quigley

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If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower.

Mitch Hedberg

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If the people that love you are the people at your side on your last day, and there's not a soul in that room that has any bad words to say about you, well, I'd say Heaven awaits you, my friend.

Coy Bowles

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Aristotle

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I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

Pete Wentz

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