Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

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• I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Control

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Nature
  • Focus
  • Environment

• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Career
  • Playing
  • Go

• I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Fighting

• I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Struggle

• If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Makeup

• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

  

  Gary Chapman
  • Love
  • Person
  • Reaching

• By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Art
  • See
  • Canvas

• The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Appreciate
  • Possible
  • Fast

• I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Mail
  • Viagra

• Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Live
  • High
  • Food

• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Body

• While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • School
  • American
  • College

• And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Think
  • Child
  • Creative

• I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Live
  • Learn
  • Forget

• I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Stress

• MMA has the rudest, most negative, dumbest, ignorant fans in the world - but it also has the most passionate fans in the world.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • World

• Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • Money
  • Mother

• The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Leader
  • Individual

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• People know me as 'Wipeout Girl' or 'Mercury Girl.' They never know my name, and sometimes, maybe that's a good thing.

  

  Jill Wagner
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

  

  Nicholas A. Christakis
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Interactions