928 private quotes tagged health

“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 were not going to have success.” — Marian Wright Edelman

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

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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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“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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“The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.” — 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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“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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“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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“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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“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.” — Joseph Addison

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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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“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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“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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“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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“We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.” — Andrew Weil

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

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“The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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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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“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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“Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.” — John Bruton

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“Health food makes me sick.” — Calvin Trillin

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