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).

  • “From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.” -Angela Merkel

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  • “As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.” -Bill Toomey

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  • “Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.” -Mitch Daniels

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  • “We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.” -Carl Lewis

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  • “If you look at things that really affect people’s lives – sport, the arts, charities – they were always at the back of the queue for government money – health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas – sports, the arts, the lottery – got relatively petty cash from…

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  • “It’s totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.” -Paula Radcliffe

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  • “I can understand why some people might look at me and say, ‘What’s she got to be depressed about?’ I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.” -Natalie Imbruglia

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  • “High-quality food is better for your health.” -Michael Pollan

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  • “I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.” -George Osborne

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  • “If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.” -Alex Ferguson

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  • “I’m very confident my health isn’t going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.” -Steve Yzerman

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  • “Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear – integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.” -Andrew Weil

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  • “The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.” -Mike Huckabee

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  • “Oh my gosh, I feel like I’m really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.” -Ginnifer Goodwin

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  • “I’ve always enjoyed poor health.” -Taylor Caldwell

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  • “Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don’t kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.” -Eric Alterman

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  • “Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.” -Barbara Ehrenreich

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  • “When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She’ll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman’s role in the economy benefits society at large.” -Andrea Jung

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  • “You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.” -Cory Booker

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  • “I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don’t take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health.” -Sherri Shepherd

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  • “I’m 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.” -Hulk Hogan

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  • “I have a lot of health anxiety.” -Charlie Kaufman

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  • “Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.” -Christopher Bond

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  • “Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you’ll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a ‘moral value’ – ‘affordable health care is a moral value’ etc., – then you’ll appeal to red-state voters.” -Eric Liu

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  • “I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.” -Bob Barker

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  • “Voters did say ‘repeal health care,’ they did say ‘reduce the size of government.’ But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said ‘give tax breaks to the wealthiest.’” -Charles Schumer

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  • “I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.” -Davey Havok

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  • “I’m by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I’ve seen it save a lot of people’s lives.” -Zach Braff

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  • “We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.” -Joan D. Vinge

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  • “Women’s health needs to be front and center – it often isn’t, but it needs to be.” -Cynthia Nixon

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  • “We know that there are significant health benefits from consuming more fruits and vegetables, and that’s an opportunity for us to sort of move away from some of the meals that we’ve been preparing in the past.” -Tom Vilsack

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  • “I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.” -Leighton Meester

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  • “I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.” -Donna Shalala

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  • “One of the things I like best about ‘Biggest Loser’ is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there’s no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people…

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  • “Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.” -Aphra Behn

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  • “I’m happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was – but it’s almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with ‘Angels,’ and it still generates income for me, but it’s not enough for me…

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  • “Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.” -Timothy Murphy

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  • “We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.” -Thomas Friedman

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  • “Make no mistake, a ‘yes’ vote on the Democrats’ health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.” -John Boehner

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  • “Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.” -Nathaniel Branden

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  • “The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.” -Eddie Bernice Johnson

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  • “Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.” -Laura Schlessinger

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  • “I have no regrets. I’ve got my health.” -Naomi Campbell

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  • “Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually… even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.” -Johannes Tauler

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  • “With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.” -Ron Wyden

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  • “Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.” -Rahm Emanuel

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  • “Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It’s about being fit for life.” -Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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  • “A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.” -Elaine MacDonald

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  • “Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.” -Lucy Powell

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  • “I don’t think there’s a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I’ve got other stories to tell.” -Richard Russo

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  • “In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the ‘Today’ show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.” -Jane Pauley

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  • “I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “Our children’s health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.” -Rod Blagojevich

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  • “If you’re going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.” -Dick Wolf

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  • “I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.” -Jim DeMint

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  • “Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.” -Ric Keller

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  • “Lack of time is a real health killer.” -Marilu Henner

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  • “Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.” -Sloane Crosley

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  • “When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.” -Jordin Sparks

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  • “I think health is another exceedingly important thing.” -Joan Collins

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  • “I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It’s crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.” -Cat Cora

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  • “I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I’m at Mass. My mother always said, ‘We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people’s health, we pray that God’s will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.’” -Nancy Pelosi

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  • “Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.” -Shigeru Miyamoto

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  • “It’s about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It’s about health and safety regulations and green fines.” -Nigel Farage

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  • “I don’t think healthcare’s a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.” -Adam Carolla

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  • “As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.” -Dan Rather

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  • “I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.” -Giacomo Casanova

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  • “My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don’t think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn’t be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.” -Bryan Cranston

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  • “For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.” -King Abdullah II

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  • “Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.” -Jane Fonda

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  • “Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.” -Anne Wilson Schaef

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  • “Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can’t wait to get to work in the morning. I’ve got steady jobs, I’ve got my health, and I’m here in the greatest city in the world. I’d be a pig not to be grateful.” -Christopher Meloni

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  • “There’s no one place a virus goes to die – but that doesn’t make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.” -Jeffrey Kluger

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  • “And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.” -Tim Ryan

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  • “Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration’s first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.” -Eliot Spitzer

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  • “Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.” -Dave Obey

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  • “A woman’s health is her capital.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  • “I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it’s put out in the media as true.” -Jesse Jackson

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  • “One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits – a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.” -Chris…

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  • “Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.” -Frederick Buechner

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  • “A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.” -Sydney Smith

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  • “The bottom line is, I’m blessed with good health. On top of that, I don’t go around thinking ‘Oh, I’m 90, I better do this or I better do that.’ I’m just Betty. I’m the same Betty that I’ve always been. Take it or leave it.” -Betty White

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  • “I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.” -John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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  • “It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.” -Norman Cousins

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  • “Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.” -Jonathan Sacks

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  • “Walking is magic. Can’t recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps…this is a primal way to connect with one’s deeper self.” -Paula Cole

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  • “Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.” -Mary Baker Eddy

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  • “Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush’s austere budget for the next fiscal year.” -Arlen Specter

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  • “As musicians and artists, it’s important we have an environment – and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and…

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  • “I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.” -Bell Hooks

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  • “Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must – must – redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.” -Donald Berwick

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  • “I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.” -Stephen Harper

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  • “Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.” -David Suzuki

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  • “The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.” -Mark Hyman

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  • “I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.” -Tony Shalhoub

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  • “My health and my family are the core of my being.” -Jon Bon Jovi

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  • “The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people’s basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.” -Gro Harlem Brundtland

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  • “Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.” -Helen Reddy

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  • “Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?” -Sargent Shriver

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  • “It’s funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It’s great, you purge out all the sweat and you’re drinking water.” -Bryan Cranston

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  • “If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?” -Al Sharpton

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  • “Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.” -Ivan Illich

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  • “No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.” -Rutherford B. Hayes

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  • “Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the ‘Waterloo’ Republicans dream of.” -Thomas Frank

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  • “Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.” -Peter Singer

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  • “The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.” -Anna Quindlen

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  • “As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women’s mental health: employment improves it.” -Susan Faludi

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  • “It’s long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women’s health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.” -Martha Plimpton

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  • “Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.” -Benjamin Carson

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  • “I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we’ve been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.” -George McGovern

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  • “I’m not into animal rights. I’m only into animal welfare and health. I’ve been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the ’70s. We’re a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I’ve worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!”…

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  • “Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama’s biggest liability – the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.” -Ron Fournier

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  • “We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.” -Michael Bloomberg

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  • “Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.” -Elizabeth Edwards

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  • “People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.” -Laurence Sterne

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  • “Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don’t know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.” -Jesse Jackson

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  • “Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, ‘I’ve got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.’ Yeah, that’s always the sign of a man in good health, isn’t it?” -David Letterman

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  • “There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families’ and the country’s economic development. A girl’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.” -Sachin Tendulkar

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  • “People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.” -Calvin Klein

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  • “What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.” -Danica McKellar

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  • “The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.” -Herbert Spencer

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  • “You don’t have to be a wreck. You don’t have to be sick. One’s aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.” -Jeanne Moreau

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  • “Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.” -Carl Levin

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  • “My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.” -Maurice Sendak

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  • “My Dad is my hero. He’s 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn’t have been luckier with my parents.” -Harry Connick, Jr.

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  • “Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation’s number one public health problem.” -Jim Ramstad

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  • “The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.” -James Otis

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  • “Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration’s worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.” -Dee Dee Myers

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  • “We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.” -Rick Perry

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  • “We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.” -M. Scott Peck

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  • “I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.” -John B. S. Haldane

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  • “Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.” -Jim DeMint

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  • “I’m convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.” -David Satcher

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  • “The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.” -Ashley Montagu

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  • “I have had lots of friends who’ve been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able…

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  • “The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.” -Muhammad Iqbal

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  • “We drink one another’s health and spoil our own.” -Jerome K. Jerome

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  • “There’s a need for accepting responsibility – for a person’s life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.” -Buzz Aldrin

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  • “One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you’re on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it’s running away.” -Mike Huckabee

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  • “My main goal is to stay healthy because when you’re injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.” -Maria Sharapova

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  • “I’m one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.” -Carter Burwell

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  • “America doesn’t have health insurance.” -Joe Biden

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  • “If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right’s deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.” -John Podhoretz

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  • “Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.” -Quentin Crisp

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  • “In order to lead a country or a company, you’ve got to get everybody on the same page and you’ve got to be able to have a vision of where you’re going. America can’t have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations – can’t have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It’s got…

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  • “If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That’s not called capitalism, that’s called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.” -Michael Moore

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  • “Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.” -Anne Wilson Schaef

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  • “A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.” -Chris Christie

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  • “Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child’s background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.” -Pat Robertson

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  • “Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.” -Samuel Smiles

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  • “Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.” -W. H. Auden

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  • “In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” -Henri Frederic Amiel

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  • “Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.” -George Herbert

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  • “What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?” -Adam Smith

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  • “Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.” -Mark Dayton

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  • “There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.” -Karl Lagerfeld

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  • “Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.” -Joan Jett

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  • “The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.” -Simon Mainwaring

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  • “Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that’s where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.” -Paul Farmer

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  • “The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do – get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make – I will be able to maintain my good health and…

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  • “For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.” -Nathan Deal

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  • “For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound – say through increased benefits – will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the…

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  • “He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.” -Plautus

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  • “Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.” -Robert Orben

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  • “I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse.…

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  • “The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.” -Paul Ryan

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  • “According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.” -Luis Gutierrez

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  • “Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn’t so good.” -Jeff Bridges

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  • “Health food makes me sick.” -Calvin Trillin

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  • “My health is very good.” -Barbara Bush

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  • “Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.” -Robert Redford

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  • “A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.” -Gilbert Highet

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  • “Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!” -Michael Caine

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  • “I’ve been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don’t get sick as much. They don’t lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.” -Jello Biafra

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  • “In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.” -Deepak Chopra

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  • “When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that’s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the…

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  • “No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.” -Charles Caleb Colton

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  • “Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation.” -Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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