health

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘health’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn’t care about people who lacked health insurance.” -Ari Fleischer

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  • “I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don’t get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don’t get ill.” -Andre Rieu

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  • “Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let’s continue to move forward.” -Jack Layton

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  • “I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.” -Sylvia Earle

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  • “Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.” -James Thomson

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  • “Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can’t let that happen.” -Kerry Washington

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  • “I’m nutty for nutrition. I’ve become one of those people who can’t stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can’t stop proselytizing.” -Robin Quivers

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  • “There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.” -Peter Garrett

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  • “Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.” -Cathy McMorris

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  • “Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.” -Cliff Stearns

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  • “We see tremendous excitement from small-business people about the administration and about the attention and commitment that the president has to do things that really make a difference. I think they recognize that health care is one of those. I think they recognize that what we’ve been doing in the Recovery Act with our loan…

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  • “We don’t want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.” -Todd Akin

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  • “The great equalizer is health. If you don’t have it, you’re screwed.” -Jami Gertz

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  • “I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.” -Amy Klobuchar

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  • “When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America ‘s disabled in 1965, about half of a senior’s health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.” -Dennis Hastert

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  • “I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that’s happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.” -Laurel…

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  • “Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.” -Robert M. Gates

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  • “Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today’s surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.” -Ralph Merkle

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  • “I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it’s very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.” -Herbie Mann

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  • “I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.” -Reggie Watts

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  • “The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.” -Dominic Cooper

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  • “People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.” -Amy Sedaris

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  • “The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.” -Hamid Karzai

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  • “The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.” -Mike Fitzpatrick

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  • “Because I would give it all back to have my health.” -David Gest

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  • “My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.” -Ellen Pompeo

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  • “The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.” -Philip Sidney

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  • “Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.” -Phyllis Schlafly

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  • “I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent – things I’d never thought about before.” -Ezra Koenig

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  • “In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can’t grow the middle class if we don’t give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.” -Michael Nutter

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  • “Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.” -Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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  • “From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.” -John Hutton

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  • “City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.” -L. Neil Smith

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  • “Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.” -David Boreanaz

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  • “I don’t think a director should have any kids. I don’t even think it’s good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.” -Tom Berenger

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  • “Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.” -Michael K. Simpson

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  • “Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.” -Marilyn Ferguson

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  • “In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.” -Knute Nelson

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  • “Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that’s a real success story for us.” -Mike Johanns

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  • “I’ve always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you’re capable of taking risks. You’ll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You’ll have more energy to be a better mom. You’ll feel more deserving of love.” -Jillian Michaels

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  • “Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.” -Alphonsus Liguori

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  • “Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that’s one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I’m just telling you from my heart, I’m so in love with life.” -Roy Ayers

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  • “Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.” -Anthony Weiner

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  • “Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one’s physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.” -Todd Solondz

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  • “The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.” -Paul Gillmor

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  • “The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.” -Pauline Hanson

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  • “I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.” -Ruben Studdard

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  • “Health and education are always issues.” -Helen Clark

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  • “There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.” -Matthew Lesko

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  • “Family, nature and health all go together.” -Olivia Newton-John

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  • “When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I’ve always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.” -Carla Gugino

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  • “People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.” -Zoe Kazan

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  • “Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.” -Louise Slaughter

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  • “I’ve been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.” -Loni Anderson

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  • “For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children’s health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.” -Fred Thompson

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  • “For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems – but I knew she wanted to be married.” -Jhumpa Lahiri

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  • “In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.” -Jim Ryun

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  • “America’s veterans deserve the very best health care because they’ve earned it.” -Jim Ramstad

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  • “President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that’s what the American people expect and deserve – not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don’t spend time trying to figure out what’s in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the…

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  • “I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.” -Tab Hunter

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  • “To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.” -Tom Allen

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  • “I’m committed to universal health coverage and education.” -Carol Moseley Braun

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  • “When you’re young, you don’t think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don’t think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.” -Katarina Witt

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  • “I don’t work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I’m not going on the cover of ‘Maxim’ and ‘FHM’ because that’s not me.” -Maggie Q

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  • “What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.” -Rick Scott

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  • “If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health.” -Carol Alt

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  • “When I turned 30, due to my father’s heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.” -Jennie Garth

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  • “This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat… The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.” -Gro Harlem Brundtland

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  • “I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.” -Gary Locke

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  • “The Patients’ Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It’s a part of the overall health care picture.” -Debbie Stabenow

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  • “I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.” -Giuliana Rancic

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  • “When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.” -Omar Bongo

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  • “I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.” -Ted Cruz

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  • “My motivation has always been health – eating healthy and taking care of myself.” -Gabrielle Reece

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  • “With a lot of hair and make-up then I’m possibly, remotely attractive. But it’s rare, I don’t think I’m ugly but I’m nothing particularly special. I’m not a yoga and health girl. I don’t exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.” -Lisa Marie Presley

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  • “I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids’ games instead of my own. I’m excited to start the next chapter of my life.” -Drew Bledsoe

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  • “Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.” -William Falconer

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  • “As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river’s health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.” -Ron Kind

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  • “There’s definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it’s rewarded.” -Jon Ronson

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  • “It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations – and if they didn’t have food, didn’t have jobs, didn’t have health care, didn’t have the means to exercise those civil rights, we…

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  • “Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.” -Nicholas D. Kristof

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  • “I really believe that beauty comes from health – sensible eating and exercise.” -Dita Von Teese

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  • “Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.” -Jay Inslee

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  • “Challenges of historic import threaten America’s future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.” -Evan Bayh

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  • “Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin’ him problems.” -Merle Haggard

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  • “You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don’t need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety…

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  • “The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.” -Mark Hyman

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  • “Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen’s compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.” -Meg Whitman

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  • “It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.” -Richard H. Davis

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  • “We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.” -George Weinberg

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  • “I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn’t have had it if the president hadn’t acted are better off.” -David Axelrod

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  • “In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies…

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  • “Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.” -Robert Southey

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  • “I would like to be as fit as I’ve always been. I’ve been blessed with good health, I’ve been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.” -Derek Jacobi

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  • “The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.” -Tim McGraw

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  • “We will always make sure player health and safety is our No. 1 priority in the NFL.” -Roger Goodell

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  • “My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.” -Warren Christopher

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  • “My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It’s a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I’m a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That’s my best way to keep from going crazy.” -Olivia Thirlby

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  • “It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.” -Kate Smith

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  • “As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation’s agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.” -Mike Rogers

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  • “I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I’ve never thought before.” -Ann Richards

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  • “In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year – plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans’ health care.” -Doc Hastings

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  • “Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.” -Anita Roddick

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  • “I think there’s a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say ‘health’ I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.” -Shailene Woodley

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  • “Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.” -Bobby Scott

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  • “Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid ‘Washington knows best’ answers.” -Fred Upton

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  • “The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don’t want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.” -Jon Voight

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  • “Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can’t use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.” -Bjorn Lomborg

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  • “We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we’re surrendering it all at the same time.” -Paul Hawken

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  • “I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.” -Laura Hillenbrand

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  • “I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.” -John Cameron

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  • “The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.” -B. B. King

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  • “Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.” -Gail Porter

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  • “By adopting a wonderful mutt, you’ll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.” -Ingrid Newkirk

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  • “That’s why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It’s like a tonic.” -Studs Terkel

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  • “Look, if you have somebody who doesn’t have health insurance, who doesn’t have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room – in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.” -Bernie Sanders

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  • “You can’t have public health without a public health system. We just don’t want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.” -Paul Farmer

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  • “I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that it’s bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.” -Charles Kennedy

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  • “I believe that investing in our children’s development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.” -Jay Weatherill

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  • “As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.” -Jerzy Kosinski

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  • “I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about ‘rich.’ Not only am I rich from doing some of things I’ve been able to do, but I’m rich in spirit. I’m rich in health. I’m rich in every way possible.” -NeNe Leakes

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  • “Like it or not, in the end, it’s one’s body. It’s literally what carries you through life. There’s a reason for the saying, ‘If you have your health, you have everything,’ and it’s true. Old age, disease – these are the great equalizers.” -Candace Bushnell

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  • “In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.” -Frank Shorter

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  • “My background is in health care.” -Bobby Jindal

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  • “The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can’t leave, you are in effect a captive.” -Rowan D. Williams

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  • “Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.” -Julie Bishop

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  • “Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family’s access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.” -Eric Ries

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  • “Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!” -Kiana Tom

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  • “The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.” -Placido Domingo

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  • “The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill to end the bailouts cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won’t veto any of these things.”…

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  • “As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, ‘I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.’ Now, they tell me, ‘I want to be president just like you.’ All of us can dream as big…

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  • “I’m active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.” -Mandy Patinkin

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  • “When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can’t afford, they are condemning good people to death.” -Tammy Bruce

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  • “We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.” -Lionel Trilling

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  • “You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.” -William Temple

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  • “People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.” -Frank Bruno

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  • “I’m actually tougher on myself as I get older. It’s a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can’t buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.” -Criss Angel

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  • “I’m always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I’m probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.” -Daniel Johns

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  • “I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.” -Kathleen Turner

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  • “When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.” -Tom Petty

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  • “These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.” -Kevin Rudd

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  • “I am in very good health. I’ve never felt better.” -Hugh Hefner

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  • “I’m against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it’s not just government bureaucrats. I don’t like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.” -Gary Bauer

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  • “We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn’t reimburse us on any of these things.” -Jan Brewer

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  • “The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.” -Samantha Morton

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  • “I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.” -Elizabeth Hurley

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  • “When you start fooling around with drugs, you’re hurting your creativity, you’re hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don’t kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul’s dead, you’ve got nothing to offer, anyway.” -Paul Stanley

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  • “Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?” -Petrarch

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  • “I believe in health care reform.” -Joe Manchin

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  • “In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.” -Patricia Cornwell

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  • “Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.” -Paul Nurse

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  • “Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.” -Sugar Ray Leonard

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  • “You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we’re looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And…

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  • “I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.” -Britt Ekland

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  • “From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.” -Dirk Benedict

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  • “I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother’s poor mental health.” -Jean Piaget

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  • “When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.” -Amartya Sen

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  • “The five different areas in which boys are in crisis – education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness – are handled by different portions of the government.” -Warren Farrell

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  • “Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.” -Barbara Boxer

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  • “It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.” -Terry Eagleton

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  • “Happiness lies first of all in health.” -George William Curtis

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  • “Today’s business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone’s job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.” -Allen Klein

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  • “I’m a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I’ve really had to decide what’s important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with…

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  • “The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven’t gotten there yet.” -James Earl Jones

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  • “By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans’ services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.” -Dan Lipinski

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  • “No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.” -Lindsey Graham

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  • “It’s wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn’t paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.” -Paul Wolfowitz

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  • “Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.” -Tryon Edwards

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  • “Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” -Thomas Dekker

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  • “If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America’s health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.” -Jamie Oliver

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  • “Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs’ true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.” -Larry Elder

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  • “If you’re too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that’s what this is for. It’s about building confidence and that’s what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.” -Khloe Kardashian

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  • “One of the jewels in the crown of Labour’s time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.” -David Miliband

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  • “Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women’s voices regarding their own health care.” -Sandra Fluke

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  • “For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa’s cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.” -Michelle Malkin

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  • “I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.” -Paul Krugman

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  • “I’m on a health kick! I’m drawn to cheeseburgers, so I’ve got to just try and keep it on an even keel.” -Emily Blunt

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  • “When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman’s health, that’s personal too.” -Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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  • “The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call ‘external costs,’ like the health effects of air and water pollution.” -Jeff Goodell

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  • “In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn’t have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.” -Jeremy Rifkin

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