Michelle Obama Quotes - Page 15

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• My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Firsts, First Lady

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think in the end, I want to make sure that my kids come out of this thing on the other end in one piece. But I also know that that's how the rest of the country feels as well, so for that I am grateful.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Grateful, Kids

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.

  Michelle Obama

  Emotional, Parent, Energy

  "Michelle Obama talks nutrition and 'wakeup call' moment in her family's past". Interview with Morgan Whitaker, www.aol.com. September 10, 2015.

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• I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was always a voice that was unfamiliar to me, and it was the voice of a military spouse, oftentimes a woman, oftentimes working, many times in a position where they've had to move every two or three years, where their kids have had to change school multiple times, people dealing - families dealing with multiple deployments, dealing with the stresses of reconnection.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Stress, Military

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We got a commitment that 3 million nurses are going to be trained to better identify these signs [of PTSD], because, you know, when these troops come home and they become veterans and they go back into the civilian community, they're not always going through the VA system for medical care. They're going to show up at community hospitals and clinics.

  Michelle Obama

  Commitment, Home, Nurse

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It's always positive to hear how many people are willing to step up - whether it is the employment community, mental health community, or medical community.

  Michelle Obama

  People, Community, Employment

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals.

  Michelle Obama

  Commitment, School, Nursing

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• And that's why the president has asked the entire government to step up, on his part. I mean, there's - there are things that the private sector needs to do; there are things that the government needs to do.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean, Government, President

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It's been so important that the Chamber of Commerce, for example, has hosted hiring fairs that are specifically targeted to military communities.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, Community, Important

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• There are many different ways that a military person's career can be translated.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, Careers, Different

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway. ...Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, School, Kids

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• I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Celebrating the holidays in the White House over these past eight years has been a true privilege. We've been able to welcome over half a million guests... our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies... and Barack [Obama] has treated the American people to countless dad jokes.

  Michelle Obama

  Dad, Holiday, Past

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Fashion is about so much more than just a pretty pair of pumps or the perfect hemline. For so many people across the country, it is a calling, it is a career, and it's a way they feed their families.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Fashion, Careers

  "First Lady Michelle Obama’s Lesson in Fashion" By Kristi Ellis, Rosemary Feitelberg, wwd.com. October 9, 2014.

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• Start, as parents, with yourselves, number one.

  Michelle Obama

  Numbers, Parent

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• We're our kids' first and best role models. So the first question is, what are you as a mom or a dad doing every day, or every week, to start getting into the good habits?

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• We are living in a time where we just don't have enough time. People are rushed. They're over worked, over scheduled. Not enough resources. ...But the thing that I want people to understand in this campaign is that families can make small manageable changes in their lives that can have pretty significant impacts.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Impact, People

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• One of the things I've done personally is bring my girlfriends into my health and fitness journeys.

  Michelle Obama

  Girlfriend, Journey, Done

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Reality, Careers

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.

  Michelle Obama

  Political, Adults, Position

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did, in fact, they admired it.

  Michelle Obama

  Asking, Care, Facts

  Democratic National Convention speech, 2012.

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• Child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin. Both rob our children of the energy, the strength and the stamina they need to succeed in school and in life. And that, in turn, robs our country of so much of their promise.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Children, School

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• Know that America belongs to you, to all of you.

  Michelle Obama

  America, Knows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In the 10 cities with the nation's highest obesity rates, the direct costs connected with obesity and obesity-related diseases are roughly $50 million per 100,000 residents. And if these 10 cities just cut their obesity rates down to the national average, all added up they combine to save nearly $500 million in healthcare costs each year.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Cutting, Cities

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• We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those numbers. And that's a good thing.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, Numbers, Unemployment

  Source: www.wbur.org

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