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• Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Reading, People

  Robertson Davies (1997). “The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books”, Viking Press

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.

  Paula Deen

  Want, Chickens, Lettuce

  USA Today interview, edition.cnn.com.

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• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  Cameron Diaz

  Sweet, Food, People

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• I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

  Junot Diaz

  Falling In Love, Anime, Japan

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• So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.

  Mike Ditka

  Baby Boy, Thinking, Years

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• Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.

  Mike Ditka

  Stay Strong, Sacrifice, Pay The Price

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• You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Taken, Exercise

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• I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.

  Beth Ditto

  Careers, Weight, Mama

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• My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.

  Novak Djokovic

  Jobs, Done, Movement

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• There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• We can all put weight on or lose weight.

  Keith Emerson

  Weight, American Diet, Loses

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• I use a lot of spices, fresh veggies and fruit, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, soybeans and organic ingredients as often as possible. We need fat in our diets and using the healthier fats is key.

  Todd English

  Keys, Nuts, Oil

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• I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

  Emilio Estevez

  Love You, People, Teeth

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• I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

  Paloma Faith

  Trying, Sugar, Rewards

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• Try to think of working out and healthy eating as a lifestyle. Rather than go on a diet or try a crazy exercise routine, try making them something you do every day.

  Allyson Felix

  Crazy, Exercise, Thinking

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• Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

  Bob Filner

  Home, Exercise, Parenting

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• The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Want, Stomach

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• For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

  Bobby Flay

  Moderation, Fast Food, Carbs

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• I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

  Bobby Flay

  Cheeseburger, I Can

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• Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Sugar, Don't Trust

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• I don't believe in diets.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Believe, Don't Believe

  Bethenny Frankel (2010). “The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Average

  "The Skinny on our Growing Girth" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Sptember 26,2009.

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• And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

  Michelle Obama

  Healthy, Marketing, Limits

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• The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

  William Osler

  Health, Exercise, Animal

  In H. Cushing Life of Sir William Osler (1925) vol. 1, ch. 14

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