Vets Quotes - Page 4

• They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Children, Stupid

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• I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they had had to treat a fox that had been brought in with a shooting injury. The answer from a vet who had worked there for many years was, Not once. When I asked him why, he said,You can take it from me that when the fox is shot in the countryside by somebody trained, it is dead.

  Ian Cawsey

  Hunting, Years, Answers

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• I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Careers, Acting, Littles

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• I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

  Natalie Portman

  Doctors, Mermaid, Interviews

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

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• Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

  Abraham Kaplan

  Coping, Mathematics, Mathematical

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• That's what I'd call him if he was my dog. Jacket-humper. Kinda had a ring to it. Although it seemed a little long for vet visits and intros to lady dogs.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Dog, Long, Littles

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• Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Art, Creativity

  Steve Martin (2007). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the cat you play with and that curls up in your lap, purring, to be stroked - you can be fond of them, you can even need them to a certain extent, and nonetheless the whole thing - buying pet food, cleaning up the cat box, and trips to the vet - is really too much. Your life is elsewhere.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Dog, Cat, Play

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.30, Vintage

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• There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.

  Kris Carr

  Dirty, Swimming, Doctors

  "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.

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• I'm very caring with animals. I think patience is a big deal, because animals are always jumping around. I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Caring, Thinking, Animal

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• I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

  Amy Lee

  Dog, Musical, Video

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• I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.

  Matthew Lesko

  Military, War, Dental Work

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• People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

  Sylvester Stallone

  War, Thinking, People

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

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• Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.

  Alison Sweeney

  Dog, Children, Mistake

  "'Biggest Loser' host, dog Winky battle pet obesity". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

  Emmanuel Levinas

  Philosophy, Morality

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• After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.

  Sarah Dessen

  Cat, Waiting Rooms, Groups

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.174, Penguin

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• I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as a revolving infirmary of injured wildlife being nursed by my sister the aspiring vet. Without any conscious intention on my part, animals come to play a significant role in my fiction: in Three Junes, a parrot and a pack of collies; in The Whole World Over, a bulldog named The Bruce. To dog lovers, by the way, I recommend My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley -- by far the best 'animal book' I've ever read.

  Julia Glass

  Dog, Horse, Book

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• I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Animal, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

  Jack Nicholson

  Successful, Actors, Done

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• He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Skills, Age

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.58, Penguin

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• In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

  Dennis Quaid

  Summer, Couple, Years

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• The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wall, Ignorance, Writing

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.317, Faber & Faber

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• A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.

  Frank Muir

  Horse, Golf, Blow

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• I play because I have fun. The vets of this team, I just wanted to say thanks to them. You guys mean so much to me. I can have a terrible day and walk in the gym and have Hasheem smile at me. That will change my day.

  Kevin Durant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Fun

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• Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.

  Mike Eruzione

  Hero, Hockey, Player

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