Caroline Knapp Quotes

Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

Caroline Knapp

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• Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Help
  • Free
  • Education

• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Trust

• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • American
  • Single

• I am pretty self-indulgent.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Self-Indulgent

• Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Architecture
  • Logic
  • Often

• Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Focus
  • Better
  • New

• I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Always
  • Boxing
  • Boxed

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • End

• I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • You
  • Simple
  • Look

• The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Thing
  • Analysis
  • Itself

• I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Country
  • Everyday
  • Listen

• I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Travel
  • Working
  • Heels

• The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Personal
  • Dignity
  • Treasure

• I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Journalism
  • Racket
  • Freelancer

• It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • America
  • Political
  • Faith

• I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Businesses
  • Board
  • Recession

• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Flying
  • Saying

• I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Real
  • Moments
  • Sadness

• These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Fear

• Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Long
  • Home

• Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

  

  William James
  • Attitude
  • Natural
  • Procrastination

• Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

  

  Caroline Knapp