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People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#does #health #health insurance #industrial #industrialized

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#i #incredibly #me #messes #mind

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#been #being #business #criticized #hong

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#getting #hassles #i #lot #me

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#because #her #i #power #seized

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#black and white #boss #felt #gave #had

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#done #faced #fears #humiliating #i

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#daily work #fireworks #guess #i #ledger

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth. ↗

— Dave Barry

#days #except #had #idolized #many