Surgery Quotes

• I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

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• You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

  Michael Jackson

  Vacation, People, Hollywood

  "Michael Jackson-Turned White From Disease-Vitiligo! Tragic!". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, ireport.cnn.com. February 10, 1993.

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• Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like, alright, I hate it, but it's part of me - or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery, I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't really need to be done.

  Lauren Conrad

  Hate, Needs, Noses

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• I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Years, Long, Scary

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• I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

  Joan Rivers

  Memorable, Comedian, Wish

  "On Being Blonde" by P. Munier, (p. 84), 2004.

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• I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

  James H. Boren

  Humorous, Medicine, Medical Bills

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• A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a lobotomy.

  Joan Rivers

  Lobotomy, Plastic, Surgeons

  "Happy 80th birthday Joan Rivers! Comedian's 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liner jokes" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. June 08, 2013.

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• One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.

  Dave Barry

  Kissing, Cells, People

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• I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

  Shawn Johnson

  June, September, February

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• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  Kate Winslet

  Real, Feel Better, People

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• I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Cancer, Respect Women, Found

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• Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

  Al McGuire

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

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• Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

  Han Suyin

  Life, Hurt, Truth

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• The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

  William Stewart Halsted

  Science, Medicine, Weapons

  Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 23: 191 (1912)

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• I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

  Winston Bennett

  Funny, Sports, Stupid

  Winston Bennett (2011). “Fight for Your Life: From Tragedy to Triumph”, p.127, Tate Publishing

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• I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

  Morley Safer

  Citizens, Journalism, Citizen Journalism

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• I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Life, Happiness

  "Lady Gaga: Plastic Surgery Is ‘Promoting Insecurity", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.

  Michael Porter

  Moving, Balls, Ping Pong

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• Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Medicine, Lasts, Revolution

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• What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality. Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.

  George Leef

  Hurt, Cancer, Government

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• Brain surgery is not like politics and vice versa.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Brain, Vices, Vice Versa

  "The Fix Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2016.

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• True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

  Helen Keller

  Teaching, Reading, Book

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• Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Age, Looks, Attempting

  "Karl Lagerfeld Gives His Best Quote About Plastic Surgery Yet" By Jamie Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

  William Faulkner

  Mistake, Believe, Writing

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• When you're younger you have a lot of ideas and you're probably more insecure, all those things. I work with young actors now and I see their insecurities and I make fun of them. I don't make fun of them but I make them laugh, because I know what they're going through. When you get older you think 'It's only a movie after all, it's not brain surgery.'

  Anthony Hopkins

  Insecure, Thinking, Ideas

  "Interview: Anthony Hopkins (The World’s Fastest Indian)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. January 31, 2006.

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