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 like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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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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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 now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
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She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.
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People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
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Tupac gave us validity. Tupac made the kid getting beat up every day realize that it was okay to be smart. Tupac made the knucklehead realize that it was okay to stay home and read a book. A fool at 40, a fool forever.
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This is the city that kind of formulated who I am. And, not only that, but to be black in Atlanta is one of the greatest things because you can go anywhere and feel familiar with anyone who's right next to you, from Bankhead to Buckhead.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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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.
