Weight Quotes - Page 24

• I don’t worry about gaining weight. I’m fortunate in that I’ve never had to worry about that. Some people eat when they are stressed. I don’t eat enough.

  Alana Stewart

  Worry, People, Stressed

  "Alana Stewart: Actress And Former Model Talks Spirituality And Staying Vibrant At 67". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

  Octavia Spencer

  Apples, Trying, Body Types

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• As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Teenager, Body, Gains

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• A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they stop, and it's especially hard when they get pregnant. What they need to realize is that if you're not exercising so much, you don't have to eat so much, and your body adjusts. It sounds so simple, but you really do have to listen to your body.

  Courtney Thorne Smith

  Crazy, Exercise, Simple

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

  David Strathairn

  Thinking

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• I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.

  Gail Simmons

  Healthy, Looks, Height

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• For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Strong, Men, Work Out

  "Jennifer Lawrence talks 'X-Men,' fame and 'Hunger Games'". Interview with Jen Chaney, www.washingtonpost.com. May 29, 2011.

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• When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.

  Nicole Sullivan

  Fall, Son, Unhappy

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• I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Love Is, Climbing, Spending Time

  "A Beautiful Mind" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13,2012.

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• I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

  Daley Thompson

  Kids, Vegetables, Junk

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• Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.

  Gabrielle Union

  Drama, Pressure, Comedy

  "Gabrielle Union talks about The Honeymooners". movieweb.com. June 7, 2005.

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• The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Running, Ecosystems, Our World

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• The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.

  Carnie Wilson

  Weight Problems, People, Needs

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• Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  Thinking, Oil, President

  "Gary Hart, James Woolsey: Oil Tied to Security". Interview with Daniel Stone, www.newsweek.com. August 05, 2010.

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• I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

  Nik Wallenda

  Anchors, Harness, Feels

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• If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

  Samuel West

  Play, Torches, Done

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• I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

  Shailene Woodley

  Trying, Gains, Skinny

  "Exclusive Interview: Shailene Woodley from The Secret Life of An American Teenager". Seveteen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 06, 2009.

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• In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.

  George Gilder

  Creativity, Hands, Order

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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• Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Weight Problems, Ego

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• But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Truth, Science, Suspicion

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• Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Science, Thinking

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• Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.

  Criss Jami

  Running, Block, Opportunity

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• I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

  Kristanna Loken

  Training, Weapons, Mime

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• I took my weight training to a new level.

  Ryan Lochte

  Training, Levels, Weight Training

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• I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

  Taylor Lautner

  Sweat, Two, Burning

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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