"The people in power have created an obesity epidemic."

-- Robert Atkins

#Epidemics Quotes #People Quotes #Obesity Quotes

“Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.”
“A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.”
“Thereâ€™s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not Iâ€™m disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability Iâ€™ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.”
“What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.”
“You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality off.”
“Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.”
“If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.”
“Once you move in with your significant other, you have to become a combination of each other.”

Source : "Toro Y Moi". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.

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