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• Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back. 'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Warrior, Two

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.441, Penguin UK

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• She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.

  Jenny Downham

  Crisis, Needed

  Jenny Downham (2010). “You Against Me”, p.174, Random House

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• I have written the only diet book that I believe needs to exist, and here it is: CHAPTER ONE: Eat a bit less. CHAPTER TWO: Move about a bit more. THE END.

  Miranda Hart

  Believe, Moving, Book

  Miranda Hart (2012). “Is It Just Me?”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

  David Levithan

  Cotton Candy, Weapons, Shields

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.26, Egmont UK

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• Nico leaned over and plucked a grape. Probably that was the guy’s entire diet for the day.

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, Grapes

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.201, Penguin UK

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• Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Food, Air

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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  The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

  Jacqueline Gareau

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

  "Diversification and Discipline Are Key to Investing in Gold" by Frank Holmes, www.businessinsider.com. August 21, 2014.

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• The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!

  Andy Rooney

  Funny, Fitness, Book

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.210, PublicAffairs

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• Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert (who) can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets.

  Nathan Pritikin

  Long, Ordinary, Experts

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• I'm on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I'm totally spiritual.

  Avril Lavigne

  Spiritual, Yoga, Work Out

  "Avril: Bad Girl Turned Good". Calgary Sun Interview, June 2005.

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• Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.

  Mike Moreno

  Loss, Years, Healthy

  Mike Moreno (2013). “The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Ice Cream, Average

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• Diet is a big thing. I am a firm believer in you are what you eat. I juice a lot, I try and stick to a Paleo Diet. At its core, I look at MS as inflammation, so I try and eliminate foods that cause inflammation: dairy, gluten, grains.

  Jack Osbourne

  Trying, Paleo Diet, Looks

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• The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

  Virginia Foxx

  Kids, Exercise, Obesity Epidemic

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• I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

  Paz Vega

  Hollywood, Spain, Pieces

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• My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Food, Dark, Ayurveda

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• The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

  Carol Vorderman

  Couple, Firsts, Pleasant

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• Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

  Tim Ferriss

  Organization, Needs, Goes On

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• The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Physicians, Drs, Quiet

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• Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

  Kristin Davis

  Work Out, Crafts, Made

  "Scientology foes blast Cruise in ad" by Jeannette Walls, www.today.com. March 21, 2006.

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• Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few 'diet books' that I am willing to endorse; I endorse this one enthusiastically. If you have an abdomen, get this book!

  David L. Katz

  Book, Rewards, Abdomen

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• The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Political, Insane, Information

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• The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

  Jim Goad

  People, Essentials, Vegan

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• And any time you feed your ego, it's a one-way street. ... There were so many things I had to deal with that erased the positives I got from playing the game that it wasn't worth it. It's like eating a Big Mac and drinking a Diet Coke.

  Ricky Williams

  Drinking, Games, Ego

  "NFL dropout Ricky Williams chilling in Sierra / He's been found studying the healing arts" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. November 21, 2004.

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• Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, 'You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.'

  Dave Barry

  Exercise, Snickers, Tiny

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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