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thinking two size
I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two. Carre Otis
thinking media giving
Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.' Carol Roth
thinking self starting-out
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things. Carol Leifer
thinking use language
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. Carol Shields
thinking long people
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.
thinking giving people
I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope. Carol Moseley Braun
thinking protection incumbency
I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.
thinking issues giving
And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
thinking rights color
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
health-education ideas america
I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we're waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate. Bernie Sanders
health-education giving people
They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels. Michael Gove
health-education europe play
I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible. I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest Margaret Thatcher
health-education disease awareness
I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Loni Anderson
health-education equal-pay years
I am glad that Congress has recently authorized $800,000 to State welfare agencies to expand their day-care services during the remainder of this fiscal year. But we need much more. We need the $8 million in the 1965 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare allocated to this purpose. John F. Kennedy
health-education educated knows
I see that one part of the education of women is health education. We know that women who are educated have much healthier families.... Laura Bush
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poetry qualified
Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. Louis MacNeice
poetry fruit mute
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish
poetry indignation
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] Juvenal
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poetry silence never-quit
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
poetry teach
poetry had everything to teach me about life. Diane Ackerman
poetry littles spirituality
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. Craig Johnson