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• Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It's been reflected in a lot of their work. It's self-reflective, it's quite knowing, but it's very literate.

  Simon Pegg

  Self, Knowing, Cameras

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There's usually a sexy promise attached to these trends - related to diet or fitness - that many people find too tempting to resist.

  Jillian Michaels

  Sexy, People, Magic

  "Jillian Michaels Talks Fitness Fads and What Makes an Exercise Phenomenon". Interview with Lily Butler, studioatgizmodo.kinja.com. October 12, 2015.

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• Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.

  John Robbins

  Cancer, Successful, Data

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.15, Conari Press

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• Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet.

  Phil Crosby

  Quality, Culture, Improving

  "Let's Talk Quality: 96 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask Phil Crosby". Book by Philip B. Crosby, 1989.

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• I don't have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want.

  Maria Sharapova

  Special, Trying, Pasta

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• If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it will help you be in perfect shape for the playoffs.

  Carlos Zambrano

  Perfect, Shapes, Helping

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• It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wonderful, Quantity, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Young people need compassion and guidance, not obscure mysticism. Here are some guidelines for young people: Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart, or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason. Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise, and clean living. Don’t engage in drugs or drinking. Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Drinking, Heart, Exercise

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• I've tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine.

  Brooke Burke

  Crazy, Imagine

  "Brooke Burke In ‘Shape’: In Bikini, Talks Exercise And Sex". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2010.

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• If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you'll still see the pounds come off.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Smart, Choices, Healthy

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• There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can't be a diet. You have to change your life.

  Al Roker

  The End Of The Day, Weight, Changing Your Life

  "A healthier, happier Al Roker is 'Never Goin' Back'". Interview with Craig Wilson, www.usatoday.com. December 31, 2012.

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• I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn't necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts.

  Adriana Lima

  Workout, Work Out, Secret

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• Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you're eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Corn Syrup, Oil

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• If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Book, Writing

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• You can be the most beautiful person on earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.

  Martha Stewart

  Beautiful, Routine, Earth

  "For Martha Stewart, the Secret Is Routine". Interview with Bee Shapiro, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2014.

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• So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men.

  Angie Dickinson

  Men, Secret, Might

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• We'll all make better choices about diet, exercise, and personal health when someone else isn't paying for the consequences of those choices.

  Radley Balko

  Exercise, Choices, Personal Health

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• Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.

  Robert Lustig

  Sugar, Tongue, Killing

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• We have an epidemic of obese six-month-olds. We actually have an epidemic of obese newborns. They don't diet and exercise. How do you explain that? It's what the mother consumed. Well, who told her to do that? The obstetricians.

  Robert Lustig

  Mother, Exercise, Epidemics

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• The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Loss, Wrath, Evil

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf].”, p.158

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• The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

  Michael Ian Black

  Seven Months, Weight, Six

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• The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Sleep, Men, Play

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• Insects leave (Madagascar periwinkle) Catharanthus roseus out of their diets. So, for that matter, do deer. The reason is that the plants are loaded with alkaloids so potent that they are the source of vincristine and vinblastine. These are drugs important in routines of chemotherapy for treating Hodgkin's disease and certain forms of leukemia.

  Allen Lacy

  Drug, Important, Madagascar

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• Gandhi said 'One cannot do right in one area of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another; Life is one indivisible whole.' This point of wisdom is profound. A commitment to excellence is not just reserved for a few select areas of your life - it must be reflected in everything you do. Your diet must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your physique must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your personal habits must reflect your commitment to excellence and your thoughts must reflect a commitment to excellence.

  Robin Sharma

  Commitment, Profound, Excellence

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• I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rights, Citizens, Relation

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