When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

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Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

Life is not living, but living in health.

For me I'd say... a fact that nobody knows about me is that I hate eggs, they gross me out. It's this weird thing from childhood, I don't know what it is, but I just think eggs are disgusting.

Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.