I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history people would gather around whether by the fire or at a tavern and tell stories. One person would chime in then another maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
When I gave birth to my fourth child I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.
Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance millions without jobs a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.
I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.
We each have a personal myth a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
Nor is it the least advantage to health accruing from such a way of life that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice than persons who live in crowded society.
That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health your emotional worries your personal troubles.
I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products testing on animals and the health benefits of being vegan although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.
When President Obama passed health care reform it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health that's personal too.
The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy there are no benefits.
If we can make the correct diagnosis the healing can begin. If we can't both our personal health and our economy are doomed.
True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens in our homes in our communities. All health care is personal.
My personal feeling if I can interject a political note is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.
Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.
I stand before you a totally healthy person.
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
My personal goals are to be happy healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.