Flu Quotes

I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.

Michele Bachmann

Stupid, Silly, Thinking

"Michele Bachmann wrong that swine flu broke out under Carter" by Bill Adair, www.politifact.com. April 30, 2009.

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It's either the flu or love... The symptoms are the same.

Charles M. Schulz

"Creatures, large and small".

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There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

Meg Tilly

Morning, House, Wish

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It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

Dick Durbin

Senior, Country, Cutting

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I have been laid up with intentional flu.

Samuel Goldwyn

Funny, Witty, Has Beens

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With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Numbers, Important, Viruses

"Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic Ice Skater, Pushes Seasonal Flu Shots" by Amanda Gardner, abcnews.go.com. August 29, 2009.

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The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.

Harvey V. Fineberg

Unpredictable

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It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.

Jack Welch

Crazy, Internet, Spread

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To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere.

Michael C. Burgess

Country, Important, World

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We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

Johnny Vegas

Different, Shooting, Disease

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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

Warren Buffett

Business, Military, War

"Buy American. I Am." by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2008.

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There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

Michael E. Mann

Bird, Bird Flu

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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

Barack Obama

Thinking, Mind, Pandemics

"Grounding a Pandemic". New York Times OpEd by Barack Obama and Richard Lugar, www.nytimes.com. June 06, 2005.

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Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

James Goldsmith

Humor, Gossip, Disease

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The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Sick, Guy, Bird

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With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

Michael C. Burgess

Years, Vaccines, Viruses

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My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

Tom Glazer

Dad, Epidemics, Years

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The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.

Jon Corzine

Years, Flu Vaccine, Vaccines

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I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

Daryl Hall

Going Away, Bed, Fever

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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fall, Ego, Pests

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If the Bush Administration cannot ensure Americans that they will be safe from the flu, how will they protect our country against a possible bio-terror or chemical attack? The American people deserve better.

Jon Corzine

Country, People, Deserve Better

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It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

Amy Johnson

Ideas, Doe, Shots

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In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent around a team and vaccinated about 100 of them against flu. Six were dead within 24 hours or so and they weren't all old people, one man being in his early twenties. They threw the bodies in trucks to take to the coast where autopsies were done. It appeared they had died from heart attacks.

Archie Kalokerinos

Country, Team, Heart

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The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.

Carl Zimmer

Fighting, Years, Example

Source: bigthink.com

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The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

Bill Gates

People, Pandemics, World

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