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You are not Paul Carrack.
You are not David Copperfield.
You are not Annie Sullivan.
You are not Albert Einstein.
You are not Loretta Lynn's father.
You are not a house builder.
You are not Sigmund Freud.
You are not a moving staircase.
You have not been hoist by your own petar.

What are you?

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  • $\begingroup$ Is the knowledge tag applicable here? $\endgroup$
    – PDT
    Commented Nov 7 at 10:58
  • $\begingroup$ I think probably not. $\endgroup$
    – Pete
    Commented Nov 7 at 11:00
  • $\begingroup$ Are you sure there is absolutely no need to reference some kind of external knowledge source like Wikipedia? $\endgroup$
    – PDT
    Commented Nov 7 at 11:03
  • $\begingroup$ A little bit of knowledge, perhaps, but nothing particularly obscure. I think that the majority of people will get it once they see the answer. $\endgroup$
    – Pete
    Commented Nov 7 at 11:10
  • $\begingroup$ Is the typo in the last line deliberate? $\endgroup$
    – fljx
    Commented Nov 7 at 12:34

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Unless I'm confused, this definitely needs that knowledge tag, because I think I am

a doctor

and this puzzle is about

the various times Dr McCoy said "I'm a doctor, not a ..." on Star Trek.

Consulting

the start of the list at https://www.ditl.org/paglistdoctornota.php (I have no idea how authoritative it is)

we see:

House builder: "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!" (The Devil in the Dark)
Freud: "I'm a surgeon, not a psychiatrist!" (The City on the Edge of Forever)
Einstein: "I'm not a scientist or a physicist, Mr. Spock..." (Metamorphosis)
Moving staircase: "I'm a doctor, not a escalator!" (Friday's Child)
Carrack: "I'm a doctor, not a mechanic!" (The Doomsday Machine)
Hoist with one's own petar (this is not a typo, it's how Shakespeare wrote it): "I'm a Doctor, not an engineer!" (Mirror, Mirror)
Copperfield: "I'm not a magician, Spock, just an old country doctor." (The Deadly Years)
Loretta Lynn's father: "I'm a doctor, not a coal miner!" (The Empath)

This leaves

Annie Sullivan (must be "miracle worker")

but

since OP, in comments on the question, seems keen to insist that there's "nothing particularly obscure" here, I shall refrain from going to further effort to try to determine where that one occurs :-).

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  • $\begingroup$ I'm guessing "house builder" is the first in your list, which you currently have unlabeled $\endgroup$
    – juicifer
    Commented Nov 7 at 15:10
  • $\begingroup$ that is correct. $\endgroup$
    – Pete
    Commented Nov 7 at 15:48
  • $\begingroup$ D'oh, I'm an idiot; will fix that. $\endgroup$
    – Gareth McCaughan ♦
    Commented Nov 7 at 18:53

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