A Quote by Tan Cheng Bock

I was only a village doctor with a rebellious streak.

Tan Cheng Bock

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Doctor Only Rebellious Streak Village

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Tan Cheng Bock
Singaporean - Politician
Born: April 26, 1940

I do have a slightly rebellious streak in me, I'm afraid.

Sarah Lancashire

You should have had the decency to die when you needed to." “Sorry,” I admitted. “I’ve been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it’s almost over.

Ally Carter

The place where I hail from - a village in Gopalganj in North Bihar - people only know two professions: an engineer or a doctor.

Pankaj Tripathi

I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

Brad Katsuyama

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.

Coco Chanel

I'm not rebellious. I try to be rebellious, but I don't walk around being rebellious for no reason.

Sofia Boutella

Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.

Suzanne Vega

I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.

Nawal El Saadawi

The only thing wider than my family's mean streak is my family's cheap streak.

Steve Rushin

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

Tobin Heath

I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women.

Svetlana Alexievich

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.

Lewis Thomas

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

Cesare Pavese

The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.