“[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights. The mutilation of healthy bodies and the subjection of such bodies to dangerous and life-threatening continuing treatment violates such people's rights to live with dignity in the body into which they were born.” PeopleShouldHumansBodyLightPoliticalBornRightsDangerousHealthyDignityAbuseUnionsHuman RightsMedicalTreatmentSovietContinuingSurgeryThreateningSoviet UnionPsychiatrySubjectionHealthy BodyMutilationTranssexuals Author:Sheila Jeffreys
“Such a small percentage of our population carry the burden of knowing what's really going on in our country's name, and I think that unless that's out in the open and people are discussing it, then our healthy democracy is not so healthy.” PeopleThinkingCountryNamesKnowingDemocracyHealthyPopulationBurdenOur CountryPercentagesDiscussing Author:Lisa Ling
“A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox, I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does.” PeopleThinkingDoeBodyCareAgeFacesMomHealthySkinsMy MomTake CareNervesYour FaceProceduresHealthy LifeBotoxInjection Author:Melania Trump
“Right at the heart of the Affordable Care Act is the ban on insurance companies discriminating against people with a pre-existing condition. And this part of the Affordable Care Act makes sure that health care is not just for the healthy and wealthy.” PeopleHeartCareCompanyConditionsHealthyHealth CareWealthyAffordableBansInsurance CompaniesAffordable Care Act Author:Ron Wyden
“Mike Pence and Mitch Daniels in Indiana, the woman who`s coming in to run the Medicaid program at the federal level, her name is Seema Verma, a brilliant young woman, she made Indiana - healthy Indiana work so that actually low-income people in Indiana, actually have real healthcare coverage that they get access to a doctor. Those kinds of reforms on the state level we want see happen in all 50 states.” PeopleWantKindMadeRealStatesHappensRunningYoungNamesLevelsHealthyLowsProgramDoctorsBrilliantAccessIncomeReformHealthcareYoung WomenMikeCoverageIndianaLow IncomeMedicaid Author:Paul Ryan
“This sounds strange to many people, but I work out for exactly 16 minutes every day, and do so at maximum speed by running 2.5 miles. This keeps me healthy without taking up too much time so I can stay focused on other things. It's one of the most efficient things I do each day.” PeopleI CanRunningSoundToo MuchMinutesStrangeHealthyWork OutFocusedSpeedMilesEach DayEfficientMaximumStay Focused Author:Luis von Ahn
“People often think that they are eating really healthy when all the food they are eating is genetically modified. So nothing genetically modified, only real food, grains, brown rice.” PeopleThinkingRealHealthyEatingBrownGrainRiceReal FoodGenetically Modified Author:Diamond Dallas Page
“I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to teach people how to be healthy.” PeopleBelieveWellsRealJobsI BelieveTeachTeacherHealthyDoctorsPhysiciansReal Jobs Book:Folk Medicine Source: Folk Medicine
“In L.A., there are so many people that are focused on being healthy that it's unhealthy.” PeopleHealthyFocusedUnhealthy Author:Dane DeHaan
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsVegetablesMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I don't want to go back into space for military reasons, but the economic driver still remains. And so it's a matter of people understanding how that economic driver is revealed with healthy investments on the space frontier.” PeopleWantStillsMatterReasonUnderstandingSpaceEconomicMilitaryHealthyRemainsInvestmentDriversFrontiers Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I like to stay fit, because [that's when] I feel really healthy. But I never worked out for any kind of image. People have said to me, "Do you starve yourself before photo shoots?" And I always say, "No way.! That's what airbrushing is for. I had french fries last night."” PeopleWayFeelsKindSaidLastsNightFitHealthyLast NightFriesPhoto ShootsFrench FriesAirbrushing Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.” PeopleWorldWantGrowsChurchLordHealthyBeing TruePriestsMexicanBishopsGuadalupe Author:Pope Francis
“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance - all healthy, negative feelings without which people couldn't exist. But then they add, "I absolutely must succeed and must be loved by significant persons, and if I don't, it's terrible and I'm no good." Those are irrational beliefs. As long as people keep them, they'll be terrified of life and will put themselves down when they get rejected.” PeopleIfsPersonsLongFeelingsBeliefDifficultFailingRegretTerribleSorrowHealthySucceedProjectsNegativeAddSignificantFrustrationRejectedIrrationalTerrifiedAnnoyanceNegative FeelingsIrrational Beliefs Author:Albert Ellis
“I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.” PeopleIfsTryingLooksStillsLaughingHealthyBandCourtWork OutHospitalsCandleSurgeryClownLapMaking People LaughBypassJesterCourt JesterGastric Author:Richard Simmons
“African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that might be very, very healthy.” PeopleWayMightTogetherArtistHealthyAfrican AmericanAmerican Writer Author:Jerry Pinkney
“Aging people are underserved in this culture - big time. I want to stay healthy so I can serve that community and be a voice.” PeopleWantI CanBigsCultureVoiceCommunityHealthyAging Author:Shirley MacLaine
“People now have their own particular religion - a denomination of one. I suppose it's a part of the new age phenomenon, but it's much wider than that. On the whole, I would say that is healthy. But I think it was always there, secretly.” PeopleThinkingWholeAgeParticularHealthyPhenomenonNew AgeDenominations Author:Ninian Smart
“With exposure also comes more judgement and opinion so I think now is the time for me to just really solidify a safe space and be around people who are encouraging, supportive, and challenging in a healthy way. With what happened during the 2016 election, now is the time that we should feel our most brave and most fearless.” PeopleThinkingChallengesOpinionHealthyElectionBraveFearlessJudgementSupportive Author:Camille A. Brown
“One of the things I'm most proud of that we've done here at WFMU - after various failed attempts - is to create a really healthy online community that feeds into the physical real-world community. It's spawned meet-ups in other cities. People even get married - they meet online from these chats that accompany every single program and are a really big part of what we do.” PeopleDoneCommunityProudHealthyMarriedProgramVariousOnline Author:Ken Freedman
“Try to look at the bigger picture. The majority of people you date will not be your destination. They were meant to be a bridge. So find the lesson, the growth opportunity so you don't have to keep repeating your pattern and crossing that same bridge over and over again. Once you learn what you need to learn and become more self-aware and emotionally healthy, you will then cross another bridge, and one day you'll get to your destination.” PeopleTryingOpportunityGrowthHealthyOne DayMeant To BeBigger Picture Author:Amy Chan
“It's important to me, no matter what size I am or weight I am, to feel beautiful. Even at my biggest I was rocking body con dresses and you couldn't tell me twice. That's what I think Good American is. It's about women of individuality and diversity, but also about being comfortable in yourself. That's what we're trying to promote. It's not about fitting into a size two and that's what makes you beautiful. I just want people to be healthy and love who they are and be in control of your life. But that doesn't mean you have to be a size six.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanImportantBeautifulHealthyDiversityIndividualityFittingFeeling Beautiful Author:Khloe Kardashian
“People who hold on to grudges, insist on being right, and try to change other's minds have a difficult time maintaining healthy, happy relationships. Surrendered people easily forgive. They are open to new ideas, and aren't attached to being "right." As a result, people love working and collaborating with them. Others seek them out as mediators and advisers. They are more laid back and relaxed than their rigid counterparts, which makes them highly valued by others.” PeopleTryingMindDifficultHealthyForgivingDifficult TimesGrudge Author:Judith Orloff
“People who feel the need to push and control tend to keep their feelings bottled up. As a result, they get shut down or remote, and their feelings come out in twisted, unhealthy ways. They become irritable, passive-aggressive, or volatile, for example. Surrendered people make great lovers. They can be spontaneous and playful. They love to feel and express all of their emotions. They look vibrant, healthy, and energetic.” PeopleFeelingsEmotionLoversHealthySpontaneousTwistedGreat LoveEnergeticBe SpontaneousGreat Lovers Author:Judith Orloff
“I've tried to tell people that the reason I don't really get excited over good press is that I don't want to get agitated over bad press. I don't wanna get too high on good press, too low on bad press. It's just not a healthy way to engage with my own feelings about my music.” PeopleReasonFeelingsHealthyExcited Author:DJ Shadow
“Every generation thinks things are happening that have never happened before. Every generation of people thinks we're in the last days. Every generation's filled with pessimists. But when you have the Millennials generation, a majority of which have never had a job - you might even be able to put the period there: "Have never had a job, period" - or never had a job in a healthy economy.” PeopleThinkingEconomyHealthyPessimistLast Day Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Remember, one in every five people in America goes hungry and there are certainly a whole lot of folks who are getting three meals a day who do know where their next week's food is coming from who are very sensitive to this issue who would like everybody to be fed. Add to that the number parents who have children in schools who would like their children to be eating healthy, wholesome food and don't want sugary sodas or chocolate milk to be chuggable at any moment of the day by their kids.” PeopleChildrenMomentsKidsSchoolRememberParentHealthyEatingHungrySensitiveChocolate Author:Andrew Zimmern
“Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.” PeopleEconomicHealthyRiversImportanceRecreationEcologicalMississippiMississippi River Author:Ron Kind
“Sometimes you have to say no to things that people don't want you to say no to in the interest of self-preservation. I definitely went through some times that I did more than I could handle, and I was trying to make decisions for the best of my career; the irony was that those decisions were a direct cause of my inability to produce, perform, create anything. If you are not emotionally and personally stable and intact and healthy, then the entire foundation of what you do this for - the things that you make - is gone.” PeopleTryingSometimesInterestDecisionHealthyDirectIrony Author:Jenn Wasner
“My own son has a congenital heart condition, where his life was saved by a cardiac surgeon stepping in at 11 days of life to save his life. But he is now 21 years old because of constant monitoring and working with him with a primary care physician. that's the only reason now that he's getting to live a long and healthy life. That's what we're not rewarding. They don't have the kind of resources and commitment that we are giving to people like me. I have millions of dollars of equipment available to me when I go to work every day in an operating room.” PeopleGivingHeartKindLongReasonCareSonHealthyCommitmentSurgeons Author:Atul Gawande
“There's a huge challenge around coral bleaching specifically, because when most people think about coral, they think about the beautiful, white sculpture sitting on their mantle. And it looks so pristine and clean and beautiful. It's not supposed to look like that when it's in the ocean. It has color, it has animal flesh living on it, it has plants living inside of that. They look very, very different when they're healthy in the ocean than they do when they're sitting in somebody's home.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHomeBeautifulChallengesAnimalHealthyOceanPlant Author:Jeff Orlowski
“President Obama said, oh, we want to make insurance perfect for people, but he added all these regulatory mandates, made it too expensive. Young, healthy people didn't buy it, and the people remaining in the insurance pool were sicker and sicker. That's the adverse selection and the death spiral of Obamacare. And so really we do need to discuss the intricacies of what worked and what didn't work in Obamacare. And I think the better way to do this is to let individuals have the freedom to choose what kind of insurance is best for them. The government doesn't always know best.” PeopleThinkingKindIndividualPresidentPerfectHealthyPresident ObamaPoolFreedom To Choose Author:Rand Paul
“The money in the stabilization fund, $130 billion which I call an insurance bailout, is put in to try to cure the adverse selection that Obamacare created by making insurance too expensive. Healthy people didn't buy it. They tried to fix this by forcing young people to buy it through an individual mandate. Even that didn't work. So the way the Republicans fix it is they don't actually fix it. They subsidize it. So we have to fix what went wrong with Obamacare, not just recapitulate something that's broken.” PeopleTryingIndividualBrokenHealthyRepublicanFund Author:Rand Paul
“Community after community is rising up, ranchers, developers, environmentalists, and local commissioners, all saying this is not the best use of our public lands. It is a story that is largely unknown in the rest of the country. It is a disturbing and community-destroying example of domestic imperialism being waged against people in places deeply connected to the public lands that are our public commons. The Bush energy policy is a short-term strategy based on corporate greed instead of a sustainable vision of what best supports local economies and healthy ecosystems.” PeopleCountryEnergyCommunityVisionSupportEconomyPolicyHealthyStrategyGreedImperialismEnvironmentalist Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“Hosni Mubarak was the glue that held very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone, there's a lot more debate and division about what happens next, which is healthy. We're essentially still under military dictatorship right now. The military rules the country. It can issue laws by decree.” PeopleCountryTogetherMilitaryHealthyDebateDictatorship Author:Sharif Abdel Kouddous
“Epidemic obesity is an enormous problem. It's a pendulum that's swung too far. We have to swing it back. So it should come as no surprise that solution must be built from the ground up on the banks of this flooding river and it must be raised to a height higher than flood waters. Now what does that look like? It looks like policies and programs that cultivate healthy levels of physical activity, healthy dietary patterns in homes, in schools, in supermarkets, in neighborhoods, in clinics, in churches, in workplaces, throughout our society, every place we can reach people.” PeopleProblemHomeSchoolWaterChurchPolicyHealthySolutionsProgramSurpriseNeighborhoodFloodWorkplaceObesityHealthy Diet Author:David Katz
“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.” PeopleThinkingWholeCultureSeriousOughtHealthySmartGunIntelligenceDiscussionSmokingYoutubeSmart PeopleProliferationReally SmartCelebrity Culture Author:Stephen King
“Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.” PeopleHealthyFamePrivacyAnonymity Author:Joyce Johnson
“A lot of acting is working with your own psyche in order to allow yourself to be open and reveal yourself. But then of course there's a healthy part of you that says, "Well, don't do that." You know, you're going to be in front of people. You could look foolish. You could get it wrong. You could be too big or too small or not realistic or whatever those things are. People might criticize you. There's all kinds of reasons not to be open. But you do want to be open.” PeopleKindReasonActingHealthyFoolishAll KindsCriticizeRealistic Author:Annette Bening
“There are still many women - and their spouses and children - who view a reflected self - I'm Mrs. Smith, not Mary Smith - as psychologically healthy. Those people are not motivated to change. But it is really dangerous to live through others'. What ever your circumstances, it is not a good idea to be wholly dependent on responses from others to like, respect or love yourself. Your children will grow up and start their own families; the divorce rate has remained at 50 percent for decades.” PeopleChildrenGrowing UpLove YouDangerousCircumstancesHealthyOur ChildrenResponseRateDivorceYour ChildrenMotivatedLove YourselfSpouse Author:Judith M Bardwick
“My sex drive has gone down so much since I've stopped doing coke. I was one of the few people that, when I did coke, I had an enormous sex drive. I still have a healthy sex life today, but it's not so important.” PeopleImportantTodayHealthy Author:Elton John
“If you're talking about the narrow issue of public assistance, I would like to see us move to a more healthy system. But until we come up with certain guarantees - for example, guaranteed jobs where mothers move off welfare - I support welfare very strongly. The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.” PeopleMovingMotherSupportWorstHealthyWelfareSwimVery Strong Author:William Julius Wilson
“There are two aspects to making movies: One is the feeling of wanting to push myself into stuff that I don't know how to do. Then there's the other impulse to try and earn a living. I want to be careful about not confusing those too much - not that those things can't have a healthy overlap. Plenty of people start out making work that isn't terribly commercial, and then make work that's more commercial but still good. You just want to watch out for that thing where you tell yourself that you're doing your best work when you're not.” PeopleTryingFeelingsHealthyCarefulPlentyImpulseBe CarefulConfusingDoing Your Best Author:Andrew Bujalski
“Thank God the Internet didn't exist when I was 15, 16. I knew people were tearing me apart, but my God, if there had been a net and commenters and I would have been reading them - it was bad enough as it was. To grow up in the media eye, I'm glad it happened, but that was definitely not healthy being around adults all the time.” PeopleEnoughEyeReadingGrowing UpInternetHealthyGladThank God Author:Emma Forrest
“I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.” PeopleMeanHomeHealthyMusic IsMy WayBother Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I've always been terrified of violence which is probably why I keep making violent films - I'm trying to exorcise some demons or something. My mum ended up bringing me up on the edge of a big estate in south London, so I was on the periphery of violence - a lot of football violence and stuff because I was a Millwall supporter. So I've always had a very healthy fear of it, yet at the same time a fascination. I think in all of my films that's a really strong subtext... people who are terrified by violence but are yet compelled by it as well.” PeopleThinkingTryingFilmStrongViolenceFootballHealthyViolentDemonMumSupporter Author:Nick Love
“I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The community should develop better support systems for saving or restoring potentially healthy marriages.But we should also help people who decide to divorce have healthier partings.” PeopleThinkingChildrenHelpingCommunitySupportHealthyDivorceStuckDoomParting Author:Stephanie Coontz
“I'm at the point in my career now, where I can take a bit of time to find exactly what roles are that I want to do and not work myself into a corner. I love acting and I love who I'm becoming, as I evolve as a human being. My work is an important part of me, which may or may not be healthy, so I need to do things that I love. I want to tell interesting stories, discover things about myself, and other people. The only way to do that is to not take jobs that feel repetitive or boring to me because then you're stuck doing that job instead of finding the thing that speaks to you.” PeopleImportantSpeakInterestingActingHealthyBoringStuckEvolveRepetitive Author:Alexandra Daddario
“The United States is the lone superpower of the world. We have a stake in Rwanda's success because we have a stake in the world's stability.And we have got to understand the need for a paradigm shift. This is not about "might makes right." This is about a democratic movement that pulls out the voices of all of the people so that they come up with a fair and healthy and stable and sustainable society. And if we can learn those lessons in a place like Rwanda, then we can apply them around the world.” PeopleWorldHealthyDemocraticStabilityParadigmSuperpowerLoneParadigm ShiftRwanda Author:Swanee Hunt
“Every record we do there are always two camps. There's the camp that's like, "I love it. It sounds different than the last one." There are the people that are like, "I want it to sound like the last one." You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentHealthy Author:Ben Gibbard