Skinny Quotes - Page 13

• One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Memories, Father, White

  "Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2004.

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• All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.'

  Apolo Ohno

  Nice, Italian, Men

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• I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Arbitrary, Knows, Seems

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• I don't exercise. I'm skinny-fat. I worry about being too skinny.

  Kristen Stewart

  Exercise, Worry, Fats

  "Kristen Stewart: I Worry About Being Too Skinny". Allure Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.

  Josh Turner

  Fun, Water, Trying

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• In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

  Sofia Vergara

  Latin, Believe, America

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• I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

  Shaun White

  Funny, Jeans, Black

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• I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

  Kate Winslet

  Sticks, Curvy, Kate

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• Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

  James Wolcott

  Fence Post, Envelopes, Hollywood

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• Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Men, Guy

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don’t discuss your weight with him. 3. Go further than skinny girls. If you can’t sell him on your body, you’d better overcompensate with sexual perks. 4. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever push the relationship thing.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Girl, Secret, Weight

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• Before Luce could reply, a skinny, dark haired girl appeared in from of her, wagging her long fingers in Luce's face. "Ooooooh," the girl taunted in a ghost-story-telling voice, dancing around Luce in a circle. "The reds are watching youuuu." "Get out of here, Arriane, before I have you lobotimized," the attendant said, though it was clear from her first brief but genuine smile that she had some coarse affection for that crazy girl. It was also clear that Arriane did not reciprocate the love. She mimed a jerking-off motion at the attendant, then stared at Luce, daring her to be offended.

  Lauren Kate

  Girl, Crazy, Dark

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• Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Hair, People

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up”, p.244, Ballantine Books

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• If you're sloppy, that's just fine. If you're moody, I won't mind. If you're fat, that's fine with me. If you're skinny, let it be. If you're bossy, that's all right. if you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's all right too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mean, Fighting, Mind

  Shel Silverstein, “Don't Change On My Account”

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• But I want you to know that you're a beautiful girl, far more beautiful than I ever was at your age, and that starving yourself to compete with all of those skinny celebrities who spend half their lives checking in and out of rehab is not only a completely unreasonable and unattainable goal, but will only end up making you sick.

  Alyson Noel

  Beautiful, Girl, Sick

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.219, Pan Macmillan

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• Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.

  Karin Slaughter

  Valentine, Feet, Numbers

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• Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

  John Green

  Blue, Whales, Rich

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.16, Penguin

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• We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there . . . he was very tall and skinny, wore lots of ponytails in his head, and I'm pretty sure I bought weed from him. I had to have.

  Cameron Diaz

  Weed, School, Marijuana

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• I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.

  Bill Walton

  Motivational, Basketball, Player

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• I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits.

  Kate Winslet

  Believe, Chocolate, Stuff

  "Alanis Morissette, Kate Winslet Reveal Slim-Down Secrets". Elle Magazine, www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2009.

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• How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? People are saying 'We love you and love what you do' and you're sitting there thinking 'I'm not skinny enough or pretty enough.' It's taken a lot of work to get over that.

  America Ferrera

  Love You, Taken, Thinking

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• I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Self, Want, Body Image

  "Mindy Kaling: 'I don't want to be skinny'". Vogue Magazine, www.foxnews.com. March 28, 2014.

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• When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

  Glenn Roeder

  Football, Kids, Firsts

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• Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim?

  Abbey Lee Kershaw

  Years, Two, Apples

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• I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Names, Taste, Bread

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