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" I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional. "

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" When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true. "

" You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life. "

" 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. "

" If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally. "

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

" Biology always beats will power. "

" Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long. "

" You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you. "

" 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. "

" Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree. "

" People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic. "

" Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports. "

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

" I've got so many weaknesses. "

" I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition. "

" I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together. "