Joycelyn Elders Quotes

Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.

Joycelyn Elders

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• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• I'm not a Republican.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Republican

• I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Travel

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Business
  • Sweet

• If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • You
  • Hate

• The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Best
  • Need
  • Prove

• I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Choices

• I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Ocean
  • Remind
  • Blossom

• When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Food
  • Understand

• You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Wish
  • Treat

• Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Nature
  • Mercy

• I see my work, as being determined by the fact that I was born in 1936.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Work

• On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.

  

  Quentin Dupieux
  • Good
  • Different
  • Guy

• We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

  

  Aristotle
  • Courageous
  • Must
  • Cowardly

• When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Disease
  • Close
  • Diagnosed

• I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Child
  • Disease
  • Poster

• To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

  

  J. Anderson Thomson
  • Kill
  • Fact
  • Error

• Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.

  

  Joycelyn Elders
  • Disease
  • Kill
  • Guns