Joycelyn Elders Quotes
You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
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Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.
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We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
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There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
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People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.
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Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.
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You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.
