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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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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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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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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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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El mal no lo hacen todos, pero acusa a todos.
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I served in the Israeli Navy, and it's not an easy thing.
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Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
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The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.
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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.
