Tom Frieden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Where you live in the United States shouldn't determine how long and how healthy you live - but it does, far more than it should.
-- Tom Frieden

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Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.
-- Tom Frieden

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It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.
-- Tom Frieden

#Opportunity #Epidemics #Ebola
The level of outbreak is beyond anything we've seen-or even imagined.
-- Tom Frieden

#Ebola #Levels #Outbreaks
I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.
-- Tom Frieden

#Ebola #Needs #Stunning
The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely throughout this country. There's no doubt in my mind, we will stop it here.
-- Tom Frieden

#Country #Ebola #Doubt
Unfortunately, it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of Ebola
-- Tom Frieden

#Ebola #Cases
It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.
-- Tom Frieden

#Ebola #Doubt #Mind

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.
The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

Tom Frieden famous quotes

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