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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor. -- Paul McCartney
My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever. -- Chris Isaak
I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they played their riffs, and after I taught myself that, I taught myself to play my own kind of stuff. -- Brian Wilson
Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best. -- Paul Newman
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. -- J. K. Rowling
I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly. -- Mick Jagger
Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino. -- Henry Garza
How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement. -- J. K. Rowling
He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master. -- Jerry Wexler
There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry. -- Ishmael Reed
A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that. -- Elvis Presley
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. -- George Herbert
Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds. -- Joan Rivers
Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable. -- Jackie Gleason
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. -- Erma Bombeck
I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe. -- Elizabeth Hurley
With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. -- Jack Nicholson
I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money. -- Marlon Brando
You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work. -- Hank Stram
If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people. -- Jim Eason
There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are. -- Kirstie Alley
The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more. -- Jack LaLanne
Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully. -- Clint Eastwood
I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people. -- Rodney Dangerfield
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. -- Elbert Hubbard
The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough. -- Angela Merkel
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. -- Gloria Steinem
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face. -- Edith Piaf
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses. -- Lesley Garrett
I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk. -- Tyra Banks
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it. -- Dave Barry
I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food. -- Mark Hyman
Certainly adding fats in the form of oils is fattening and unhealthy, but naturally fat-rich foods like nuts and seeds have profound cardiovascular benefits. -- Joel Fuhrman
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. -- Albert Einstein
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. -- Neal Barnard
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. -- Ronald Reagan
It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is. -- Deborah Bull
I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level. -- Barry Bonds
The Mediterranean diet is rich in fruits and vegetables while low in sodium. It is also enriched with olive oil, high in antioxidants as well as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. -- David Perlmutter
When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods. -- Michael Pollan
A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar. -- Gene Tunney
Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles. -- Mark E. Hyman
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. -- George Bernard Shaw
I use a lot of spices, fresh veggies and fruit, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, soybeans and organic ingredients as often as possible. We need fat in our diets and using the healthier fats is key. -- Todd English
Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions. -- Marilu Henner
If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet. -- Jack LaLanne
Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health. -- David Perlmutter
Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and phototropic bacteria becomes stored in carbohydrates and fats. This stored energy can be released by oxidative metabolism in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and used as fuel for other biological processes. -- John E. Walker
For most teenage runners, the right foods means a varied diet, decreasing the amount of fat found in the typical American diet and replacing those calories with carbohydrates. Avoid saturated fats, such as those found in fried foods, and eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. -- Don Kardong
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats. -- Neal Barnard
I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice. -- Dean Karnazes
For breakfast, I always have eggs - whole eggs. I think the fats are really important. I also like turkey bacon and really hearty whole-grain bread. I'm very picky about it. You need bread that's high in fiber and low in carbs. It's hard to find, but it's worth it. -- Summer Glau
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food. -- Mary Roach
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. -- Tori Amos
I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers. -- Ian McLagan
Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled. -- Paul Hawken
My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years. -- Ian McLagan
I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.' -- Steve Winwood
There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen. -- Kris Carr
The fats dented the flats. -- Jerry Lawler
Trans fats really are a metabolic poison. -- Walter Willett
Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease. Nothing wrong with saturated fats. -- Rush Limbaugh
I make lots of casseroles that have protein, veggies, carbs and good fats all together. -- Tori Spelling
We sell only fresh fruit and vegetables. I sell no saturated fats or anything like that. -- David H. Murdock
We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats. -- Victoria Osteen
Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year. -- Walter Willett
I would suggest that gluten tends to be tied to carbs. And I try to balance my carbs and my proteins and my fats. -- Ronald M. Shaich
I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food. -- Mark Hyman
The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs. -- Michael Pollan
If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed on the label. -- Bernie Sanders
Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Your body is incredible at 'detoxing'. It's called pooping & sweating. Best 'detox diet' = regular exercise, eating more veggies, fruit, healthy fats, lean meat, some grains and drinking more water. -- Chris Mohr
So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore. -- Albert Einstein
We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception. -- Kris Carr
We see clear evidence repeated in many studies that higher intake of trans fats is associated with higher risk of heart disease, and with many other conditions, such as diabetes and infertility. -- Walter Willett
Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.... -- Sandra Boynton
Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles. -- Mark E. Hyman
If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste. -- Bruno Maag

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