Jean Nidetch Quotes

I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.

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• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Look

• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • See
  • Wait
  • Monarchy

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Sleep

• People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Love
  • Food

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Effect
  • Seriously

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Hair

• There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Help
  • Support
  • Search

• I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Growth
  • Same
  • New York

• I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Life
  • Free
  • Space

• Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fun
  • Discovery

• I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Important
  • Think
  • Change

• Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Character
  • Doing
  • Looking

• No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Never

• I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.

  

  Kehlani
  • People

• Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

  

  Bobby Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Education

• Name your nation-state, or tribe or party - you have to rationalize what you're doing. You have to go to sleep at night. Does Dick Cheney sleep at night? Does he sleep like a baby?

  

  Martin Donovan
  • Night
  • Party
  • Sleep

• Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Night
  • Baby
  • Golf

• Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

  

  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
  • Culture
  • Education

• I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.

  

  Jean Nidetch
  • Baby