Bassnectar (Lorin Ashton) Quotes

I’m not trying to lead a movement. I am just trying to inspire and promote health and happiness.

Bassnectar

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• Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Time
  • Health
  • Animal

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Free
  • Humanity

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Great
  • Know
  • Health

• We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let's get back to letting every American choose the plan that's best for them and their family.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Family
  • American

• The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Person
  • Happiness
  • Outside

• I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Happy
  • Reality
  • Happiness

• We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Play
  • Hand
  • Happiness

• A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Health
  • Diet

• Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Health

• 'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Happiness
  • Spirit
  • Moment

• Health systems are social institutions. They do far more for society than deliver babies and pills, like a post office delivering parcels. Properly managed and adequately financed, a fair and equitable health system contributes to social cohesion and stability.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Society
  • Health

• We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Community
  • Health
  • Effort

• Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on people's health, especially mental health.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• We need to do everything we can to protect the health and welfare of children around the world, but fortunately, it's getting easier to provide things like medication and care.

  

  Alek Wek
  • World
  • Children
  • Health

• Your health benefits are not a gift - you work hard for them every day.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Health

• Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Health
  • Sleep
  • Army

• Freedom for me is the sacred right to think ... education is the fundamental part for social happiness: it is the principle on which liberty rests, and the growth of all towns.

  

  Benito Juarez
  • Think
  • Freedom
  • Education

• A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kiss

• The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Good
  • High
  • House

• The rise of franchising, contracting, and other similar employment practices has made it harder to enforce worker protections like minimum wages, overtime pay, and the right to unionize.

  

  Jan Schakowsky

• If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.

  

  Michael Spiller
  • Comedy
  • Losing
  • Having

• I’m not trying to lead a movement. I am just trying to inspire and promote health and happiness.

  

  Bassnectar
  • Health
  • Happiness
  • Movement