My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.
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JACKIE MASON I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs. JACKIE MASON I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person ... JACKIE MASON My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies. JACKIE MASON I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny ... JACKIE MASON If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck. JACKIE MASON Predictions are preposterous. JACKIE MASON I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something. JACKIE MASON It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like... JACKIE MASON He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly l... JACKIE KENNEDY Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy. JACKIE KENNEDY Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes. JACKIE KENNEDY The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. JACKIE KENNEDY What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had familie... JACKIE KENNEDY I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all da... JACKIE KENNEDY Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a hor... JACKIE KENNEDY I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives. JACKIE KENNEDY There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed. JACKIE KENNEDY You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. JACKIE KENNEDY Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for ... JACKIE KENNEDY I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investin... JACKIE KENNEDY Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living al... JACKIE KENNEDY I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady. JACKIE KENNEDY There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. JACKIE KENNEDY The only routine with me is no routine at all. JACKIE KENNEDY I want to live my life, not record it. JACKIE KENNEDY I am a woman above everything else. JACKIE KENNEDY One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent. JACKIE JACKSON I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned. JACKIE JACKSON I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all... JACKIE JACKSON I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little. JACKIE JACKSON Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him ... JACKIE JACKSON My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people. JACKIE JACKSON I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets. JACKIE GLEASON Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for in... JACKIE GLEASON The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. JACKIE GLEASON If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you hav... JACKIE GLEASON How sweet it is! JACKIE GLEASON I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classica... JACKIE EVANCHO I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent&... JACKIE EVANCHO I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I wa... JACKIE EVANCHO Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking... JACKIE EVANCHO