Epidemics Quotes - Page 4

• What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hurt, Needs, Sometimes

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Ebola has killed almost 12,000 people and at least 500 health workers. So it affected the entire population. And as you know, the World Health Organization was accused of not having declared an epidemic soon enough. And that's when we saw Ebola rampaging through Sierra Leone, Liberia and, to a lesser extent, Guinea.

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

  Ebola, Soon Enough, Organization

  "World Health Organization Declares Guinea Ebola-Free". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .

  Mike DeWine

  Ohio, Cities, Drug

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

  Mike DeWine

  Drug, Lifetime, Worst

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Islamic, Home, Dark

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

  Rihanna

  Long, Hiv, Generations

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• The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

  Kimberly Williams-Paisley

  Obesity Epidemic, Mortality, Rate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease - the epidemic, really - of gun violence.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Mean, Gun, Issues

  "Surgeon General’s Warning". Interview with Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.

  Laura Mullen

  Cancer, Thinking, Doors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As the diagnosis of autism is increasing the diagnosis of mental retardation is decreasing. And more and more on the other end, the high end, more children who are just a little bit off, who ordinarily you would not single out now are being described as perhaps Asperger’s syndrome or on the high end of the autism spectrum, so I don’t believe there is an epidemic.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Children, Believe, Autism

  "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• Wouldn't it be useful to explain the factors that actually allowed this to happen [Donald's Trump Presidency]. Like, for example, their frustration of the absolute shrinking of the middle class, the heroin epidemic, things like that. I don't see any of that.

  Tucker Carlson

  Frustration, Class, Example

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Probably because I personally knew at least six or seven people in Ross County who died from overdoses in the last three years. The heroin epidemic is just too aggravating and sad and unsettling for even someone like me to live with and think about for the time it would take to write a book dealing with it.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

  Jill Stein

  Obesity, Right Now, Diabetes

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• There is apparently an epidemic of tinnitus in younger people. Tinnitus is ringing in the ears and it can be disabling. Tinnitus is associated with cellphone use.

  Devra Davis

  People, Use, Ears

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We live in an epidemic of self-hatred. I see it daily with people coming at me, and they do it to everybody, it's not just me. The hatred is really stemming from them not liking themselves. When you look at it that way, I feel so much empathy and understanding for those people.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Self, People, Empathy

  "LeAnn Rimes' scandal magnet days are over". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. July 7, 2016.

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• The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there's a growing realization across the country that we've got to change what we're feeding our kids and that school may be a really good place to start.

  Eric Schlosser

  Country, Children, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I literally cried on Lisa Joy's shoulder when it ended. Just, "Thank you." Because those roles [like Dolores in the Westworld] are few and far between. What an amazing opportunity. It was an honor and a privilege to get to bring it to life, and I hope she gives other people the strength that she's given me as a survivor and as a human. I don't even mean to make it just a woman's issue because obviously it's men and women, but it certainly is an epidemic with women.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Mean, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

  Lori Lansens

  Issues, World, Burden

  Source: www.elle.com

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• How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, California, White

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

  Bill Gates

  Aids Epidemic, World, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two.

  Richard Jeni

  Obesity Epidemic, Two, Three

  "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

  David Lodge

  Believe, Age, Jogging

  David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Harvill Secker

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• When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of my career was mostly - and overwhelmingly - concerned with staying alive. And, also, I felt really aware of the preciousness of life and time. The gay community and people who were HIV-positive were treated so badly, and I was very disturbed by things. But I also saw a lot of love and connection in the gay community at that time.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Careers, Aids Epidemic

  "The Unapologetic Madonna Interview: The Queen Of Pop On Grindr, Song Leaks, Her Kids, And More". Interview with Dan Avery, www.newnownext.com. March 10, 2015.

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• But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Determination, Attitude, School

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• I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled".

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, People

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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