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William Shatner

William Shatner

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Birthday March 22, 1931

Birthplace Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Educated At McGill University

Nationality Canada, México

Occupations Television Actor, Film Actor, Singer, Science Fiction Writer, Stage Actor

Spouse Elizabeth Martin

Characters Portrayed

James T. Kirk

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One of the advantages of being a captain, Doctor, is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 1: Dagger of the Mind

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[to Spock] All right, you mutinous, disloyal, computerized half-breed. We'll see about you deserting my ship.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 1: This Side of Paradise

mutinous disloyal half-breed mutiny

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Captain James T. Kirk: You suspect some danger?

Mr. Spock: Insufficient facts always invites danger, Captain.

Captain James T. Kirk: Well, I'd better get some facts.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 1: Space Seed

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It's a mystery. And I don't like mysteries. They give me a bellyache, and I got a beauty right now.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 1: The Man Trap

Mystery bellyache

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Capt. Kirk: Bones, you ever hear of a doomsday machine?

Dr. McCoy: No, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 2: The Apple

doomsday machine I'm a Doctor

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What is a man but that lofty spirit, that sense of enterprise, that devotion for something that cannot be sensed, cannot be realized but only dreamed, the highest reality?

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 2: I, Mudd

Spirit enterprise Devotion

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Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You take away all obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 2: Metamorphosis

Species survive Obstacles

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You could learn something from Mr. Spock, Doctor. Stop thinking with your glands.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 1: The Man Trap

glands Thinking Logic

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There's no such thing as the unknown—only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 1: The Corbomite Maneuver

unknown understood

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There's nothing wrong with you that hasn't gone wrong with every other human male since the model first came out.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 1: Charlie X

humans imperfect

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Beam me up, Mr. Spock. We're free to go.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 1: The Squire of Gothos

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Hang on tight and survive. Everybody does.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 1: Charlie X

perseverance hang on tight survive

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Capt. Kirk: You're not going to admit that for the first time in your life you committed a purely human, emotional act?

Spock: No, sir.

Capt. Kirk: Mr. Spock, you're a stubborn man.

Spock: Yes, sir.

— James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek, Season 1: The Galileo Seven

emotions Logic stubborn

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Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body; we just want the body.

— Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld), Seinfeld, Season 2: The Heart Attack

Women Men Attraction doctors models Superficiality

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Peter Griffin: Did you just say I was fat?

Doctor: Well, uh, yeah. You... you are pretty fat.

Peter Griffin: Um, okay... this is news to me.

— Peter Griffin (Seth MacFarlane), Family Guy, Season 4: The Fat Guy Strangler

doctors Getting News fat

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I'm sorry, Elaine. I always knew that after I became a doctor, I would dump whoever I was with and find someone better. That's the dream of becoming a doctor.

— Ben, Seinfeld, Season 8: The Abstinence

doctors Players Dating

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The harder the hit, the more it'll sting. That's usually the case. So we prescribe meds, ice, compression, elevation. Things you do to stop the immediate pain. But you can only dull the pain for so long, and when the drugs start to wear off, it really hurts.

— Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), Grey's Anatomy, Season 13: Falling Slowly

doctors Holding Off Pain Suffering Drugs

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If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The saying's as true of the human body as it is of a washing machine or a blender. A good surgeon knows that if you go screwing around with something that doesn't need screwing, you are the one who is liable to end up screwed.

— Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), Grey's Anatomy, Season 13: Why Try to Change Me Now

Surgery Don't Fix What is Working doctors

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Sharona Fleming: I bet you had lots of notes from your doctor.

Adrian Monk: As a matter of fact, I did. I had a whole, separate binder.

— Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), Monk, Season 1: Mr. and the Marathon Man

notes doctors binder

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In the long history of medicine, no doctor has ever caught the first few minutes of a play.

— Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Star Trek, Season 1: The Conscience of the King

Medicine doctors Plays

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When a doctor’s prognosis is bad, we want to seek a second opinion. But when a prognosis is good we’re somehow okay with it.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com

doctors Illness Sick Death

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Doctors make the worst patients.

— Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell), Lost, Season 4: Cabin Fever

doctors Being A Patient SASS

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Life Lesson: when asked if you want to examine your patient some more, it's like being asked if you want a breath mint. The answer is always yes.

— Jesse Salander (Luis Guzman), Code Black, Season 1: Pilot

Life Lesson Work Patient doctors ER breath mint humor Sassy

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You're a doctor. You're a medical professional. You're trying to tell me that my brother's life is in God's hands? What, is that supposed to be a comfort? God has nothing to do with this equation at all.

— Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles), Supernatural, Season 9: I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here

doctors God's Hands

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Ask your doctor why bad things happen to good people. Ask your doctor why it all has to be this way. Sob on your doctor's shoulder.

— Night Vale podcast, via twitter.com

doctors Questions Crying

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