Asthma Quotes

• There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Long, Care, Restriction

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• Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

  Steve Allen

  Funny, Dog, Smoking

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• Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Medicine, People

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• I went jogging up on Mulholland. In the middle of my run I had some form of asthma attack and couldn't even walk. I couldn't get a ride one block to my house. I thought I was going to die.

  Esai Morales

  Running, Block, House

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• As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Medicine, Long

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• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  Barbara Boxer

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

  Ville Valo

  Taken, Two, Care

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• Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

  Cathy Freeman

  Serious

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

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• Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

  Van Jones

  Home, Recovery, Cutting

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• When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

  Gwen Moore

  Children, Health, Funeral

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• What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Years, America, People

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• As a child I had terrible asthma.

  Martin Scorsese

  Children, Terrible

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• I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Ucla, Years, Going Away

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• For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

  Venus Williams

  Exercise, Air, Years

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• I've had asthma my entire life.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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• Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

  Robert Winston

  Children, Medicine, Risk

  "My bright idea: Robert Winston". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2010.

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• At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

  Paula Cole

  Daughter, Mother, Eight

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• I have exercise-induced asthma.

  Chyler Leigh

  Exercise

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• I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Allergies, Aspirin, Antibiotics

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• The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

  David Levithan

  Breathe, Ability, Loses

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.39, Macmillan

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• It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Struggle, Strange

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.574, Faber & Faber

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• Asthma is treatable and well can be controlled.

  Cathy Freeman

  Wells, Controlled

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• First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Sports, Kids

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• If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Best Practices, Risk

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• And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Believe, Disability

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