Jean Nidetch Quotes
Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
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Money: power at its most liquid.
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Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.
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If I did get the opportunity to write something cool that people would like, I would jump at the opportunity to make it.
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Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.
