Brenda Novak Quotes

Slightly overweight, older than the typical groupie and definitely on the frumpy side. All of which.

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• I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Day
  • Prayer
  • Busy

• I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Democracy
  • Parties

• My life shines with God's radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Heart
  • Color
  • Blessing

• Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind

  

  Elizabeth Sims
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Smart

• It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

  

  Tom Kite
  • Needs
  • Golf
  • Development

• For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Someone
  • Ridiculous
  • Overweight

• Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Pictures
  • Overweight
  • Lose Weight

• No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!

  

  Richard Simmons
  • People
  • Fun
  • Overweight

• The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Stories
  • Audience
  • Littles

• Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

  

  Mike Rounds
  • Problem
  • Serious
  • Disease

• I did not let people tell me what to do, and I never wanted to be a groupie.

  

  Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper
  • People
  • Wanted
  • Groupie

• [On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Two
  • Ass
  • Overweight

• I'm not overweight, I'm undertall

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Overweight

• Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at the same time allured and terrified by the glare of publicity....You could do anything you like with them, if you would treat them (even the big ones) not as wolves and tigers, but as domestic animals by nature, even though they have been badly brought up and not trained as you would wish.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Politicians
  • Businessmen
  • Delusions

• I'm always the one who gets killed. And I want it to be really gory. Body parts all over the place. Mangled!

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Want
  • Body

• I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.

  

  Arno
  • Broken
  • Watch
  • Keep Going

• Stop worrying about being your child's buddy. You are the only one in the world with the primary responsibility of giving your child what he needs, not what he wants.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Child

• It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Political
  • Language
  • Silly

• I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Father
  • Dad

• A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Good
  • Directors

• There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it does take a lot out of you and is incredibly stressful.

  

  Ellen MacArthur
  • Danger
  • Price
  • Speed

• So much of our society as a whole is gearing us to maximize our salary or bonus. Basically, we just think in terms of money. Or, if not money, then, if you're in academia, it's prestige. It's a different kind of currency. And there's this unmeasured dimension of all jobs, which is whether it's improving the world.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • World
  • Different
  • Kind

• Slightly overweight, older than the typical groupie and definitely on the frumpy side. All of which.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Overweight
  • Groupie