Margo Jefferson Quotes

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

Margo Jefferson

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• In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Time
  • Fall

• If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Opportunity
  • Understanding
  • Everyday

• I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Age
  • Parents

• It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Theatre
  • Scary

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Heart
  • America
  • Black

• I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Deep

• I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Beginning
  • Born
  • Depression

• It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Law
  • Government
  • Employee

• Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Learning
  • Depression
  • Memory

• I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Pain
  • Depression
  • Research

• In depression, the built-in bunk detector that we all possess is not only turned on but is set on high.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • High
  • Depression

• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Wisdom

• The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Great
  • Money
  • Financial

• The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Depression

• I've struggled with depression in my life and sort of the way that the depression itself becomes an addiction.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Life
  • Depression
  • Addiction

• Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Attention
  • Unique
  • Depression

• I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • World
  • Job

• We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Pain
  • Depression

• 'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

  

  Lee Trevino

• As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Business
  • Age
  • Question

• And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

  

  Jeff Hawkins
  • Believe
  • True
  • Plant

• 'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Depression