Jean Nidetch Quotes
Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
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You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.
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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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Governor Romney is a good debater.
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Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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It's hard for a comic to be joking when your lines can't be funny.
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Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.
