For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.
I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.
a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.
The ifs and buts of history. . . form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.
One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.
It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.
You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.
On the Vanna White diet, you only eat what you can spell.
You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.
We'll all make better choices about diet, exercise, and personal health when someone else isn't paying for the consequences of those choices.
I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.
I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.
Permanent results only come from permanent changes in lifestyle and diet style. You don't get permanently well unless you permanently change the way you live.
The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.
Breastfeeding is the best diet. I want to eat healthy for her, so it's easy to say no to pizza.