Morgan Spurlock Quotes
More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.Morgan Spurlock
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
Naeem Khan -
I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
Kate Klise -
I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.
Zoe Foster Blake -
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky -
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor -
I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.
Randi Weingarten
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I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.
Oscar Hijuelos -
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
Larry David -
''Waterloo was won,'' quoted Rackham, ''on the playing fields of Eton.'' 'What the hell does that mean?' asked Carn Carby. 'You never even went to Eton.' 'It was an analogy,' said Rackham. 'If you hadn't spent your entire childhood playing war games, you'd actually know something. You're all so uneducated.'
Orson Scott Card -
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.
Carl Jung -
I have a few childhood nicknames. One is 'Babygirl'. My father gave that to me when I was born. He said, 'I have a beautiful baby girl' and that one stuck with me. A lot of people still call me 'Babygirl'.
Aaliyah -
My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.
Mary Gaitskill
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Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
Beryl Bainbridge -
I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
Maurice Sendak -
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
Berkeley Breathed -
'400 Blows' was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me.
Arthur Penn -
I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
Anthony Hopkins -
Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on, and it just become a part or was a part, was the only part of my life because I spent my whole childhood traveling and being on film sets.
Jake Busey
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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
D. H. Lawrence -
If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.
Willow Smith -
My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.
Camille Paglia -
TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.
Hal Hartley -
I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana -
More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.
Morgan Spurlock