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“These are the kind of things I always zero in. When I was in Rwanda, it was the same thing. You're always zeroing in those details. Not just always the bodies, but what makes up the human being.”
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“Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.”
Source : Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.57, Univ of California Press
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“I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.”
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“I do not need to play in the Champions League to be happy”
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“First, knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple.”
Source : "Franco-Asian exotica on Singapore skyline". Interview with Daniel Magnowski, www.reuters.com. August 23, 2011.
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“You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.”
Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”
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“I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.”
Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers