"Being fat just a fact. It feels important to me to speak the truth about that, and to not use a euphemism. Euphemisms are things we use when we want to dance around something or don't want to say it. I don't want to be something that is avoided. And I am my body."

-- Lindy West

#Important Quotes #Speak Quotes #Speak The Truth Quotes

“Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.”
“People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.”
“Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career)”
“I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.
“Would it be ironic if we had to go back to Iraq to rid it of the Al Quaeda that wasn't there before we got there to rid it of Al Queda?”
“...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)”
“I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.”

Source : "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.
“Peeta crouches down on the other side of her and strokes her hair. When he begins to speak in a soft voice, it seems almost nonsensical, but the words arenâ€™t for me. â€œWith my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a babyâ€™s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.”

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