Eight Quotes - Page 21

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard [on] protein - something I believe to be totally unnecsssary...[I state in] my formula for basic good eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight.

I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.

People have to know that if they've wanted to lose weight, if they've wanted to get their diabetes better and get their cholesterol down, here is how it works. Beyond that point, you can't force people into changes, you have to guide them.

You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

I guess with myself, I was probably the first woman to lift weights and do circuit training and to run the sand hills.

Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.