Danny K. Davis Quotes
Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
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I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.
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I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
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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.
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When I was younger, I used to love the idea of writing songs and performing them live. But that was all I thought about. I didn't think about people getting to know my face.
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Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.
