Overweight Quotes - Page 6

• Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

  David Zinczenko

  Successful, Today, Slim

  "NOTICED; Men Who Step Up to the Scale and Crow" by David Colman, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 2002.

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• Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick

  Abigail Van Buren

  Mother, Father, Dirty

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• Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss.

  Richard Carmona

  Loss, Years, People

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• You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.

  Matthew Lillard

  Glasses, Years, Validation

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.

  Art Donovan

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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• I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

  Gloria Estefan

  Sadness, Knowing Nothing, Childhood

  "Don't Cry for Me Fidel Castro". Interview with Charles Laurence, www.cubanet.org. May 15, 2000.

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

  Dolly Parton

  Two, Weight, Ass

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• I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.

  Daphne Oz

  School, College, Going Away

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• It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

  Lisa Ling

  Kids, Parent, Way

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• If all other risk factors are normal, and you exercise moderately, your risk of having high CRP is one in 2000, .. A person who is a little overweight, with blood fats and cholesterol a little elevated, maybe with a little bit of high blood pressure -- we didn't used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.

  Bill Vaughan

  Exercise, Thinking, Blood

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• All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight.

  Rachel Hunter

  Needs, Pounds, Angle

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• I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Thinking, Self, Feelings

  "I was so obese I'd lie in bed trying to tear bits off my body: Comedian Marcus Brigstocke once weighed 24 stone and was suicidal but lives to tell the tale". Interview with Richard Barber, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 27, 2011.

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

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, People, Fronts

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me.

  Richard Simmons

  Names, People, Upset

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Insecure, Going Out, Looks

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• It seems like thin people should not be running around dissing overweight people, and overweight people should not be running around dissing thinner people... if you like your body, love it, if you feel beautiful, cool. If you're a size 24 and you are feeling fierce, heat. If you're a size 0 and feeling fierce, be fierce. I think we need to stop worrying about what other people are doing and start focusing on manifesting on ourselves.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Beautiful, Running, Thinking

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• Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility.

  David Satcher

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

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• An overweight guy went to the doctor who advised him to try a keep fit DVD. But the guy said he couldn't be bothered. “Well” suggested the doctor, “try something that leaves you a little short of breath.” So the buy took up smoking.

  Jo Brand

  Doctors, Dvds, Smoking

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• After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.

  Wayne Dyer

  Children, Believe, Self

  Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September, 2009.

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• For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - despite being overweight by conventional standards.

  Boy George

  Sexy, Long, Interesting

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, `Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'

  Paul Giamatti

  Pride, Hair, Self

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• I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

  Paul Daniels

  Brain, Stones

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• I'm totally inhibited. When I'm overweight I will not go out.

  Kirstie Alley

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• It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight. . . . Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how did I make myself the guinea pig for this?' But on the other hand, hating my body has not been my cross to bear in this life. Which I feel very lucky about.

  Lena Dunham

  Hate, Hands, Pigs

  "Lena Dunham's Glamour April Issue Cover-Shoot" by Jonathan Bernstein, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2017.

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• If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

  Chris Rock

  Men, White Man, Black

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