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" Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. "

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" The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful. "

" Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. "

" The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast. "

" True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal. "

" I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning. "

" I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef. "

" Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it. "

" No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body. "

" In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient. "

" I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens. "

" You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well. "

" I get up at the same time every morning. "

" Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it. "

" There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves. "

" If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company. "

" I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different. "

" What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.' "

" I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband. "

" Biology always beats will power. "

" Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease. "

" Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature. "

" Medicine has always been my calling. "

" I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you. "

" As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. "

" Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. "

" I've got so many weaknesses. "

" In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient. "

" I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. "

" Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims. "