Joycelyn Elders Quotes
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.
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Music is how you feel.
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Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
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I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
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I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.
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We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.
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When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
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If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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It would be nice to say that I planned all of this, that this was exactly what I'd planned, but it was just one of those things that happened.
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Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.
