Asthma Quotes - Page 2

• Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.

  Stephen Fry

  Jobs, Stupid, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

  Don McLean

  Kids, Pneumonia, Obvious

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• To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.

  Holly Marie Combs

  Husband, Cutting, Smoking

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• if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke.

  Kiera Cass

  Sound, Ears, Lovable

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• I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

  Meat Loaf

  Musical, Pace, Today

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

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• The older I get, the more I feel.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Natural Talent, Getting Older

  "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

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• So the lover must struggle for words.

  T. S. Eliot

  Struggle, Alaska, Lovers

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

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• And I've been wearing specs since I was three.

  William Golding

  Three, Specs

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.14, Penguin

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• These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Music, Men, Pigs

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• If you think you got a better idea in terms of how to approach this that's not gonna result in more pollution, and more asthma, and more illness then put your ideas out there. But don't just oppose things because, "This was Obama's agenda."

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Ideas, Agendas

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

  William Golding

  Hate, Kids, Thinking

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

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• That's all we had when I was a kid: Robitussin. No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it. "Daddy, I got asthma." "Robitussin." "I got cancer." "Robitussin." "I broke my leg." Daddy poured Robitussin on it. "Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get in there. Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get on down to the bone. The 'tussin ought to straighten out the bone."

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Cancer, Kids

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• Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Heart, Get Better, Myopia

  "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1950.

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• My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Attitude, Kids, Risk

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• When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.

  Paul Sorvino

  Yoga, Exercise, Breathing

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• I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

  Irving Kirsch

  Pain, Placebo Effect, Research

  "Interview: Irving Kirsch showed power of placebo effect with antidepressant use". Interview with Brian Morton, Kevin Griffin, www.vancouversun.com. September 24, 2013.

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• What you don't see on television is people dying today because they can't get to a doctor and they can't afford prescription drugs. That's why they are also dying. They are dying in Iraq because they are poor and they have gone into the military because they can't afford to go to college. They're dying because they're living in communities where asthma rates are extremely high because the air is filthy. The suffering of the poor and working class people is a virtual nonissue for the media. But that is the reality.

  Bernie Sanders

  Military, Reality, College

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• It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Medicine, Mind, World

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• Democrats are fighting for people to be able to quit work while the rest of us pay for their health care while they go out and be artists and photographers and tend to bipolar kids with asthma or what have you, and we're going to pay for this.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kids, Fighting, Artist

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not be job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Children, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Exposures, if they are mild, in the sense of barely just a small concentration, it's mostly an irritant, particularly the peroxides, that in that smoke would irritate the skin or even irritate the lungs. So, for the most time, it could be either just a little bit of a nuisance irritant, or if you get a really big whiff of it, particularly people who have, for example, reversible airways disease, like asthma or different types of hypersensitivity diseases, you could get a serious problem.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  People, Skins, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You take for example the environmental movement is a big deal in my district. You know, you might say, yeah, more African Americans are suffering from asthma and air pollution-related illnesses, but there`s a lot of white folks, a lot of white kids with inhalers. So, you just got to talk to the reality of everyone, not exclude anyone. And make sure that people know that you care about them too. I think if you do that, we can get there.

  Keith Ellison

  Kids, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.

  Candice Bergen

  Breathing, Sides, Actresses

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• She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Brother, Father, Heart

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Gun, Fire, Guy

  "The Mourner". Book by Donald E. Westlake, www.nytimes.com. 1963.

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