Flu Quotes - Page 2

• Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy Mercer is Eleanor Roosevelt's own secretary. Very beautiful young woman, not unlike Eleanor Roosevelt: tall, blonde, thick haired. And FDR is having an affair with her, which Eleanor Roosevelt finds out when FDR returns from Europe in 1918 with the famous flu of 1918.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Beautiful, Hard Times, Europe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well, I hate to tell youbut if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there's ten times the likelihood that you'll get Alzheimer's disease.

  Bill Maher

  Hate, Alzheimer's, Years

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• When you get sick with the flu you get infected with flu viruses and they make lots of new flu viruses, but those new viruses are not exact copies of the old ones. They have mutations in them. A lot of those mutations are harmful.

  Carl Zimmer

  Sick, Viruses, Mutation

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There is some research that suggests that viruses like the flu are really actually kind of at the razor's edge when it comes to mutation. They're mutating so fast that if they mutated much faster they would actually develop a lot of harmful mutations that could slow them down and cripple them and eventually literally drive them extinct.

  Carl Zimmer

  Viruses, Mutation, Research

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I feel good. I'm much better. Actually, I just lost 10 pounds on a new diet called the flu. Has anyone tried that one out?

  Jay Mohr

  Feel Good, Pounds, Lost

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• Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

  Amy Poehler

  Tonight

  "Golden Globes Monologue: Tina Fey And Amy Poehler Talk Ricky Gervais, Lena Dunham And More". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2013.

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• A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

  Bill Maher

  Compromise, Shots, Immune System

  "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 15, 2005.

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• Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns.

  Robert Tisserand

  Powerful, Healing, Oil

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• Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Fever, Chill, Ends

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• The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

  Paul A. Offit

  Pneumonia

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

  Paul A. Offit

  Flu Vaccine, Vaccines

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• People don't always recognize how serious it can be, that there can be some serious complications from the flu and even death. People believe they'll be down for a few days and then be fine, and that's just not the case.

  Sarah Chalke

  Believe, People, Serious

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Fire, Bird

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• Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for hours, and have little people pounding in your head with hammers, it is sheer bliss just to eat a piece of toast, walk outside without getting dizzy, and breathe fresh air. Part of the journey toward joy involves not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of our blessings.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

  David Agus

  Baby, Flu Vaccine, Shoes

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• Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Misery, Vaccinations

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• Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces.

  Charles P. Gerba

  Thinking, Air, People

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• I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

  Carre Otis

  Doctors, Antibiotics, Kind

  "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

  Margaret Chan

  People, Anxiety, Community

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• Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono.

  Bill Maher

  Ducks, Bird, Mermaid

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• I don't know how not to get the flu.

  Alfred W. Crosby

  Know How, Knows

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• Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu.

  Lionel Shriver

  Winter, Waiting, House

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• Just think: your family are the people most likely to give you the flu.

  Jane Wagner

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Jane Wagner (1995). “My Life, So Far: By Edith Ann”, Hyperion

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• Where I'm from, people aren't quick. A girl once asked her mum, 'Can I have a Cadbury's Creme Egg?' The mum said, 'No, you can't Danielle, I've already told you, darling - bird flu!'

  Tom Deacon

  Girl, Eggs, People

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• You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.

  Gilda Radner

  Writing, Trying, Hollywood

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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