It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.
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Related Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life. JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE It's not the fat that's making you fat: it's not understanding separating carbohydrates ... SUZANNE SOMERS It's not okay to be fat - not because of the way you look, but because it's unhealthy. I hav... SONAM KAPOOR Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal. Let's face it: Russell Crowe i... NIA VARDALOS Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it. NIA VARDALOS Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to ... KHLOE KARDASHIAN If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's... KENNETH H. COOPER One of the most important reasons for this is that as you increase muscle and lose fat you increase ... BOBBI DUNN At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat agai... JEAN NIDETCH To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. I'm not worried if... TOM COLICCHIO I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's ver... KATE WALSH It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is t... ROBERT ATKINS The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It's more about finding yourself. ... RAVEN GOODWIN If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for mys... KIM KARDASHIAN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to... DANIEL CRAIG Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind. AMISHA PATEL I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always f... CHER When your body absorbs toxins, it stores them in fat, which is why fiber and probiotics are strategi... SUZANNE SOMERS You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but... CAITLIN MORAN Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It... BEAR GRYLLS He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. ERIN HUNTER I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat. ELIZABETH HURLEY I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kid... MELISSA MATHISON I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Wh... WHITNEY HOUSTON I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around ... AIMEE MULLINS It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a p... THOMAS MOORE The best way to get someone to lose weight is to get them feeling OK about being fat. JUDY REBICK It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not a... MICHAEL SCHIAVO I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms.... ROXANE GAY The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a v... STEVE JOBS Saturated fat is a fundamental building block for brain cells. It's certainly interesting to con... DAVID PERLMUTTER I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden... ERLAND JOSEPHSON More important, it's because God is our only true source of life. CRAIG GROESCHEL The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are real... YIDDISH PROVERB The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are real... ROBERT FROST Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort... JEREMY CLARKSON Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements abo... JENNIFER ARMINTROUT Old money in Southeast Asia is much more discrete and low key. It's about not wearing brand name... KEVIN KWAN Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm ... FAT JOE Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field There passes for a moment the fig... ALBERTO CAEIRO I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, i... CARRIE FISHER I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You... JESSE VENTURA I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but a... JEAN NIDETCH One of the things I don't like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It's kind of ... ALAN MOORE This does very strongly refute the dominant view in the 1990s, that reducing the amount of fat in th... WALTER WILLETT I feel real good, ... My body fat is down. My weight is in a good area. I'm not sure if it's the bes... BRENDAN HAYWOOD My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded... MATT MCGORRY When you get that big -- regardless of whether your body is muscle or fat -- your heart is stressed. CHARLES YESALIS It's not about being thin, it's about being healthy. And when you are a child you like to ea... DIONNE BROMFIELD Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul. ANNETTE BENING I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all... OLIVIA CULPO Your heart... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it... ANNE-MARIE DUFF Fitness is not an option. It's part of my job. ALISON SWEENEY I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see... MAEVE BINCHY It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out. KATHY FRESTON What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone t... KENDALL JENNER 'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life. ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's ... BEN HOPKINS This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle ... TOM COLICCHIO Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 ... LEE MAJORS Pool swimmers are very slim, and they're stronger. Marathon swimmers have to train an awful lot,... POLIANA OKIMOTO Anorexia isn't about being fat, it's about having fat. CAROLINE KETTLEWELL There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. CASSANDRA CLARE It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen a... CAMRYN MANHEIM I want people to talk about my comedy, about cancer, about body issues, about scars, because cancer,... TIG NOTARO Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI 'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexual... BARRY JENKINS This is not just because you're building muscle, which weighs more than fat – there are a host of ... BOB GREENE I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat. JOHN SWARTZWELDER It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street... ISRAEL HOROVITZ With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounde... ELLEN ULLMAN See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS The meat that I choose to feed my family, it's healthy meats such as lamb, which is very low in ... TIA MOWRY 'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film ... NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI It's been great to travel because I really enjoyed being 'Elektra', so it's not a pr... ELODIE YUNG We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It&... ANNIE LENNOX The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very cl... BILL AYERS Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories... LOUISE FRESCO We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. M... IKE BARINHOLTZ It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism. MARK DAVIS Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy. WOLFGANG PUCK Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's no... JANEANE GAROFALO The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the... GAVIN NEWSOM The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it... BEN OKRI I believe every woman's body is beautiful in its own way. I have never understood that just beca... COCO AUSTIN Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zer... KIRK DOUGLAS Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at al... JOHN TRAVOLTA
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Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80... DEBORAH BULL At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pu... DEBORAH BULL It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like... DEBORAH BULL Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys. EMMA BULL When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thous... SITTING BULL If we must die, we die defending our rights. SITTING BULL The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it. SITTING BULL Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. SITTING BULL There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose... SITTING BULL I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. SITTING BULL The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. SITTING BULL They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from he... SITTING BULL They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last tim... SITTING BULL What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian... SITTING BULL Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and w... SITTING BULL Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be le... SITTING BULL Every seed is awakened, and all animal life. SITTING BULL What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has see... SITTING BULL Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. SITTING BULL It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. SITTING BULL If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food... SITTING BULL I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the... SITTING BULL If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place. SITTING BULL Democracy means to us Indian people, 'I am going to steal your land' SITTING BULL Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. SITTING BULL Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys. EMMA BULL It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighb... SITTING BULL To the contrary, if that person had no specific goal in mind and the end of the week were approachin... DEVIN BULL I don't give a shit what people think about how I
surf. I have fun doing it, that's all that matters... DEVIN BULL What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have th... SITTING BULL I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is... SITTING BULL Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. SITTING BULL I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief. SITTING BULL A person's "Success Mechanism" is actually triggered or activated by goals.
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MICHAEL BULL They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything... EMMA BULL I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it. EMMA BULL They will be a good, solid opponent. They swing away freely. This is a big match for them, with us b... COACH KATHY BULL We're not hitting home runs. We're not curing people, but we're extending lives. DR. JOAN BULL Both strategies are important. We know this works. We are often dealing with critically ill patients... DR. JOAN BULL I've been studying this for more than 20 years. This is not 'alternative medicine.' We are inducing ... DR. JOAN BULL We had to get consistent with deep ground strokes. We learned that very harshly on Sunday. You can't... COACH KATHY BULL We have a tendency to get down and we get a little bit soft and we're not going to go very far in th... 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DEBORAH EISENBERG We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we re... DEBORAH EISENBERG I just want to be on my own branch twittering. DEBORAH EISENBERG I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ... DEBORAH EISENBERG I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk... DEBORAH EISENBERG It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more... DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both b... DEBORAH EISENBERG I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided... DEBORAH EISENBERG The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it. DEBORAH EISENBERG I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very activel... DEBORAH EISENBERG I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous... DEBORAH EISENBERG Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de fa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about... DEBORAH EISENBERG I would like to never ever think about any political issues. DEBORAH EISENBERG The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is ... DEBORAH EISENBERG Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all f... DEBORAH EISENBERG Fiction is a report from the interior. DEBORAH EISENBERG We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken. DEBORAH TANNEN The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made ... DEBORAH TANNEN Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I bur... DEBORAH SAMPSON Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end. DEBORAH MOGGACH It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ... DEBORAH MOGGACH Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l... DEBORAH MOGGACH I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that fill... DEBORAH MOGGACH Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only... DEBORAH REBER Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us ... DEBORAH DAY Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two. DEBORAH DAY Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us... DEBORAH DAY Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky DEBORAH KERR Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations. DEBORAH TANNEN Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown ... DEBORAH TANNEN For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that ca... DEBORAH TANNEN When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen. DEBORAH NORVILLE There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that im... DEBORAH TANNEN I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir... DEBORAH HARKNESS I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words... DEBORAH TANNEN I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good. 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We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for ce... DEBORAH WILES God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness. DEBORAH RANEY Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain... DEBORAH REBER Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses. DEBORAH DAY If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same. DEBORAH DAY True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for th... DEBORAH BARNES The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching th... DEBORAH MOGGACH The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and... 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DEBORAH SAMPSON I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl... DEBORAH ELLIS When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a... DEBORAH ELLIS This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremen... DEBORAH TANNEN Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious... DEBORAH TANNEN When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothe... DEBORAH TANNEN Help me Lord be a Light and not a shadow in the darkness of my fears. DEBORAH BRODIE Not understanding something must not turn us away from God, his ways, or purposes; rather it must be... DEBORAH BRODIE What the edge of Truth cuts, the edge of Grace mends. DEBORAH BRODIE Count the cost of everything. Rather than asking someone, "How much does this cost?" Ask yourse... DEBORAH BRODIE Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat. DEBORAH BRODIE It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - ... DEBORAH MOGGACH He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t... DEBORAH COX The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the ... DEBORAH TANNEN There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people,... DEBORAH MAILMAN American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mo... DEBORAH TANNEN Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's s... DEBORAH KASS I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more ex... DEBORAH COX The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate. DEBORAH TANNEN In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversatio... DEBORAH TANNEN The catheter allows us to bathe the entire abdominal area with a high concentration of chemotherapy ... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see. DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for t... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagn... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG IP therapy is not a new treatment approach, but it has not been widely accepted as the gold standard... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG We want to make this a model for other communities in the future. DEBORAH ABBOTT The heritage of the state is very agricultural. Re-energizing agriculture is the key to Indiana's ec... DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel. DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel, DEBORAH ABBOTT My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out sm... DEBORAH LEVY In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell... DEBORAH TANNEN I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every di... DEBORAH COX I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous ... DEBORAH SAMPSON