David Lehman Quotes
If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.
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My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'
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Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
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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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I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.
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Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.
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Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
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You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.
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Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.
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Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.
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Leadership means setting a moral tone.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
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If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.
