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Famous Quotes By Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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I continue to do my job as a brain surgeon, as a researcher, and I try to make it better and better every day, not only for my patients but for their families, for my family and for the future generations of our country. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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Sometimes I struggled to say something meaningful only to learn that silence is just as powerful as words. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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As a researcher at US Berkeley I used to go into the brains of small, little animals and study the way that brains were connected and how little did I know that one day that was going to be my future - exploring the universe of the brain and hold it in between my hands and look at cells migrating. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the microscope with my mouth, I connect, my hands are always working in the brain, my feet are controlling everything. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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Unwilling to give in to that possibility, I keep going, holding on fiercely to the belief that I can make it. Taunts of "you can't" and "who do you think you are?" have never stopped me before, so why should they now? — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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I hear hate. I hear people who clearly don't have a great understanding of the American dream. That the American dream is based on hard work and dedication, determination, resilience, excitement, mentorship, help and love for each other. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa