"I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me."
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"Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done."
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"I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets."
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"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best."
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"Nothing tastes as good as thin feels."
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"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity."
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"Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities."
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"Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends"
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"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."
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"Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp."
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"I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all."
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"Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced."
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"Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!"
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"Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace."
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"As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life."
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"We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living."
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"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."
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"I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!"
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"[On why she doesn't exercise:] If I tried to jog with these boobs, I'd end up with two black eyes."
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"A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life."
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