Charan Das Mahant Quotes
Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population?
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
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Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.
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The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
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I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
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Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.
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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
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Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?
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I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
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It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.
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I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
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The idea that women are actually getting some jobs - whoopee. I can't say that I celebrate it without a hint of cynicism, because I think of how easily things can drop away and go back to the same old routine of being a boys' show. But I think it's a wonderful thing that women are getting to direct more.
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We have persistant objects, they're called files.
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Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population?
