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- There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
- To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That's…
- It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an…
- 'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for…
- We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if…
- I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.
- Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang…
- I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd…
- As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it.…
- I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit…
- All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.
- I shave my body in all kinds of ways, wear tons of eyeliner and dye my hair pink.
- For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person…
- Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents,…
- I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter -…
- I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a…
- I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to…
- In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles…
- My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am…
- Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have…
- Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can…
- When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra…
- With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you…
- I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds!
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle