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"Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy."
"Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this."
"When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'"
"Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist."
"it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time."
"How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations."
"Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion."
"The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound"
"I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do."
"A small waist makes you tire easily."
"Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy."
"Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films."
"There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it."
"There's a huge emotional component to weight loss."
"I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds."
"Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy."
"If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control."
"[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips."
"I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know."
"I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings."
