- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fat Quotes
Weight, humor, and the will to change it.
One line here is pure self-deprecating humor about carrying extra weight, while another recalls a memorably sweaty music-video moment built around a bigger-than-life performer. See Fat Man quotes for more in that vein.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Corrective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be really fat, but now I'm not. I used to have hair, but now I don't. I used to be able to see without corrective lenses, but now I can't. One of these this is exacerbated by the fact that I'm an editor. One of these things is true despite the fact that I'm an editor. One of them has nothing to do with me being an editor.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.
- Calmly
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- Nov 07, 2020
After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have loved to have been Henry VIII; I would have been big and fat and no one would have cared.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, everyone walks into the gym on day one skinny or fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym skinny at 15 or 16, and I was that way, too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.
- Cater
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to write a joke without any fat on it. The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
- Chicken
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eating Paleo just leans you down and slims you up and takes that little layer of fat and water-weight right off your body.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020