"Tell people that biology and the environment cause……" — Andrew Lansley
"Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we have to avoid: an excuse. As it is, people who see more fat people around them may themselves be more likely to gain weight."
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Andrew Lansley
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13 Quotes by Andrew Lansley
Andrew Lansley has 13 quotes on this site.
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In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.
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I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare,…
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We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a…
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We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young…
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In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift…
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Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital,…
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You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never…
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I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be…
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Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken.…
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We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.
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Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
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Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or…
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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