Joycelyn Elders Quotes

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

Joycelyn Elders

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• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Data

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Pressure

• My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Hero

• If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Amazing

• If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Control
  • Myself
  • Clothes

• Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Country
  • Change

• In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• 'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best way to describe what the cable industry - from programmers to content makers to distributors - imagine their world is. Services and content available to very demanding consumers, wherever, whenever, however.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • World
  • Control
  • Best

• Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hand

• When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Fly

• There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Life
  • Alone

• Maybe my face is edgy, but that's because it's the face of somebody who's seen life.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Life
  • Edgy

• These horrific murders are only a symptom of a deeper malaise. Life is hell for the living too. Whole populations - millions of Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims and Christians - are being forced to live in terror, unsure of when and from where the assault will come.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Life
  • Live

• When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Life
  • American

• Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Life
  • Question

• No country is perfect, but we have to be honest, and strive to expand freedoms, to broaden democracy. The bottom line is that when citizens cannot exercise their rights, the world has a responsibility to speak out.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Country
  • Perfect

• I run the material, always with two people, sometimes three. We all see things so differently, so to get a couple of people's perspectives on what I'm doing and the material itself is insanely helpful for honing in on what to take into the audition room.

  

  Jay Ellis
  • People
  • Couple

• I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

  

  Katy Butler
  • Home
  • Die
  • Quarter

• If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

  

  Joycelyn Elders
  • Life
  • Control
  • Reproduction