Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

In the immediate aftermath of the civil-rights movement, Democrats marketed liberalism to us as fashionable, sophisticated and liberating. Today it needs a surgeon general's warning: hazardous to your family and the values you were taught as a child.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

If you had asked me what I wanted when I was 12 years old, I probably would have said, 'To marry a plastic surgeon.' You can hardly blame me: I was growing up in Miami.

I've learned to not forecast anything beyond the year, because when I went to Stanford, I originally wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon. So it's just hilarious to look back at all of the things I wanted to do.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.

Whenever people want to talk about how hard it is to be an actor, I want to go, 'Um, it's hard to be a baby-heart surgeon.'

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.

I was damn sure that I was not going to be a lawyer or a brain surgeon.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

When I was little, I wanted to be a plastic surgeon.

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.

I'm the son of a surgeon and the grandson of a surgeon.