928 private quotes tagged health

“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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“It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.” — Kathleen Turner

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“Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.” — Mahalia Jackson

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“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” — Michelle Obama

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“Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.” — Jim Clyburn

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“Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.” — Dirk Benedict

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“It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.” — Clive Barker

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“If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.” — Kathy Ireland

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“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.” — Paul Cezanne

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

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“The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.” — Samuel Wilson

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“Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.” — Samuel Wilson

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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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“But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.” — Jim Clyburn

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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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“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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“We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.” — Samuel Wilson

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“Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.” — Jeff Goodell

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“Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.” — Ivan Illich

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“And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.” — Julie Bishop

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“Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.” — Mike Fitzpatrick

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“After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.” — Helen Gurley Brown

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