Ricki Lake Quotes
I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
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Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.
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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
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I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty.
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I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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When I'm done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get into the Mint 400 and do the trophy truck stuff.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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At first glance it would seem, of course, that no two subjects could possibly be further apart than an underground society of pickup artists and supercomputer chess. What on earth do these two narratives have to do with each other—and what do they have to do with asserting myself as human in the Turing test? The answer is surprising, and it hinges on what chess players call “getting out of book.” We’ll look at what that means in chess and in conversation, how to make it happen, and what the consequences are if you don’t.
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The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
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You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person.
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I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.
