Jean Nidetch Quotes
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.
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I am one of the people who don't really agree with that lifestyle. I wasn't brought up that way; it wasn't how I was raised, but I do have a lot of friends and a lot of people that I love dearly who are gay and homosexual, and they're such sweet, nice people.
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Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.
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All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.
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We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
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I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.
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We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
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My son, Todd Fisher- he has been such a wonderful son and brother.
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While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
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I'm an FFH: a Formerly Fat Housewife.
