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He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

We had sort of Spinal Tap moment in Europe . . . when I caught on fire. Vince almost had to stop singing, he was laughing so hard.

Nikki Sixx

We've probably evaluated close to 400 children worldwide that have severe spinal and chest malformations.

Robert Campbell

I thought to myself at least a couple of times after a hit, 'Boy, that's going to leave a mark. I'm going to pay for that some day down the road.' We didn't talk about spinal compression. I'm sure I lost at least 2 inches in height in my career. I'm barely hanging onto 6-2 now.

Dan Dierdorf

To reduce this issue to an abortion issue is a horrible injustice to 100 million Americans suffering the ravages of diabetes, spinal cord paralysis, heart disease, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, cancer, MS [multiple sclerosis], Lou Gehrig's disease and other fatal, debilitating diseases.

Jim Ramstad

I came down with my patients all the way from the ninth floor including people with spinal fractures.

Ruth Berggren

The greatest thing that happens to me when I'm skiing is the harmony. The only time I was ever present in my body before was in sex, performing, drugs and with the sea. Skiing became the new and healthy way of being present - although I don't know if it's healthy, I could sever my spinal cord.

Spalding Gray

Based on this new research, if just one infected cow entered the US feed supply and the brain and spinal cord of that animal were maximally dispersed in feed, it could potentially infect 45,000 other cows. That's why we have to be extremely vigilant about keeping any infected animal material out of feed and food.

Michael Hansen

The slipped disc went almost into the spinal cord. She's fine, but could've been in a lot of trouble.

Stuart Townsend

No matter how well we eat, sleep, or take care of ourselves, we can always be vulnerable to spinal cord injuries and neurological conditions.

Joe Rhea

This Is Spinal Tap.

Fred Willard

It kind of scared me a little bit because he didn't move and nowadays you see so many people go down with spinal injuries. I hit him head up so I didn't think it was that serious. I was glad to see him get up.

Roy Hall

In a blink of an eye, that bullet ripped across his spinal cord and changed this kid's life.

David Harrington

The promise of stem cell research is that instead of prescribing medication and rehabilitation for people with heart attacks, strokes, spinal cord injuries and Alzheimer's disease, we will cure them.

Fred Jacobs

Lack of adequate NIH funding is particularly dangerous in a relatively small field like spinal cord injury. For our field to continue to grow and push therapies to the patient, NIH funding is critical. Our scientists are telling us the situation is desperate. How do you tell someone recently paralyzed that the science is there but the funding is not?

Kathy Lewis

I compressed my spinal cord at T-11 and T-12.

Andrew Wesselman

From about 26 weeks you can talk about there being a complete system in terms of biology, a link from the skin to the spinal cord to the brain, and we know that set-up is reasonably functional.

Stuart Derbyshire

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

Jack Black

What it does is it takes a picture of your spine, and it tells you how your balance is. Do you lean forwards, backwards, sideways? Do you have any spinal curvature that needs to be fixed? This allows you to get into the strongest position from which to play golf from.

Rick Martino

While it sounds pretty small, in terms of overall improvements, there usually is very little recovery that occurs after the first 18 months after a spinal cord injury.

Sanjay Gupta

Rich really embodies the kind of results of the work that we do as an organization. Our job really is to help people to achieve independence, self reliance and full community participation after having a spinal cord injury.

Bill Adair

I had a spinal tap, which didn't hurt. I had an MRI, where they put you in tube [for] 45 minutes, and I actually enjoyed the privacy.

Jonathan Katz

I know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem, an inconvenience is losing a job. A problem is a spinal cord injury.

Margo Dewkett

The participants are severely disabled vets with spinal cord injuries, amputees, brain injuries.

Jim Hall

[Spinal Tap] is going to do a Where Are They Now? ...

Harry Shearer

The first nutrient is folic acid. This reduces the risk of the baby having neural tube effects. That is basically birth defects on the brain or the spinal cord. You can get 100 percent of you daily value of folic acid by having a cup of fortified cereal.

Breine Stevens

Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.

Ethel Rosenberg