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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I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often.
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A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.
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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.
