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Irwin Redlener Quotes

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

Irwin Redlener

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 12, 1944

Topics

Children Best Quality Wait Sick Get

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben

Work Morning People America Look Go

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.

John Zorn

Writing Feel Trying Place Sometimes

The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done.

John Perkins

New Done Build Hire Interest Would

I'm riding my man Obama. I think he's a visionary. Actually, Barack told me the first date he took Michelle to was 'Do the Right Thing.' I said, Thank God I made it. Otherwise you would have taken her to 'Soul Man.' Michelle would have been like 'What's wrong with this brother?'

Spike Lee

God Soul Man Brother Me Thank God

I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture to culture till I feel - till I am - nothing. As it happens, I like it that way.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Culture I Am Stand Feel You Country

As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too.

Mary Steenburgen

Looking You Say Actor Always Get

I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well.

Judy Blume

Me Better Push Know Lucky Take

Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years.

Johnny Weissmuller

Treat You Body Your Body Years See

Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.

Christine Pelosi

Green Action Clean Aspiration Just

It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.

Courtney B. Vance

Community Police Deep Black Friends

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Chuck Hagel

Peace People Gun End Through Come

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

Boz Scaggs

Step Feel Fortunate Away Able