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I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. -- Shelley Winters
From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses. -- David Keith
I'd rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I'm proud of my body. -- Holly Madison
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. -- Dave Barry
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. -- David Bowie
For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy. -- Dennis Franz
Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss. -- Richard Carmona
People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic. -- Mehmet Oz
I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart. -- Kate Walsh
For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza! -- Jay Leno
Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight. -- Star Jones
Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky. -- Ryan Reynolds
I'm not overweight, I'm undertall -- Charles Garfield
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. -- Anthony Daniels
1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight. -- Mark Bittman
I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it. -- Neil Cavuto
I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to -- Camryn Manheim
I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems. -- Eva Longoria
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution. -- Jay Leno
If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long. -- Emma Bell
Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat. -- Richard Hammond
No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you've probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you-indeed, guaranteed you-that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it. -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
I can do everything skinny girls can do, trust me. I honestly think Hollywood is getting real. They're saying, 'Hey this is what a lot of America looks like,' a lot of America doesn't wear a size 2. I think the studios and the media are starting to realize that overweight people want something they can relate to, so let's give it to them. -- Nikki Blonsky
What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff? -- Robert Atkins
It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous. -- Carnie Wilson
People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses. -- David Zinczenko
There must be something wrong with the mirrors in our house because every single one I gaze into makes me appear somewhat overweight. -- Rick Wakeman
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. -- Christiaan Barnard
My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that. -- Hayley Atwell
We overweight people, we say terrible things to ourselves. Oh, you wouldn't believe it. 'You fat pig. How can you do this? You're a disgusting jerk.' And that gets you nowhere. That gets you right back into a bowl of pasta fregula. -- Richard Simmons
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease. -- Ellen Gustafson
It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity. -- Lisa Ling
My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much. -- Vidya Balan
I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat. -- Lily Tomlin
Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us. -- Alison Sweeney
There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends. -- Milla Jovovich
If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it. -- Michael J. Fox
People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday. -- Art Donovan
I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese. -- Aaron Schock
I've been overweight all my life. -- Roberta Flack
I just don't like being overweight. -- David Duffield
I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy -- Andrew Flintoff
I grew up being teased for being overweight. -- Kelly Price
I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy. -- Mindy Kaling
For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous. -- Lindsey Vonn
There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood. -- Nicole Sullivan
I'm totally inhibited. When I'm overweight I will not go out. -- Kirstie Alley
Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight. -- Lindsay Lohan
Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues. -- Lisa Ling
Psychologically, when you've been overweight you want to achieve the polar opposite. -- Craig David
All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight. -- Rachel Hunter
No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me! -- Richard Simmons
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. -- Gene Kelly
I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight. -- Colin Baker
When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies. -- Richard Simmons
There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience. -- Sarah Baker
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz
[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips. -- Dolly Parton
I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to. -- Camryn Manheim
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. -- Banksy
Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen. -- Phil Robertson
If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit! -- Chris Rock
You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. -- Carly Simon
Although I have never been 100 lbs overweight, I know the effects of not feeling comfortable in my own skin. -- Kim Lyons
I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight - and that was just their hair. -- Bob Hope
Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight. -- Daphne Merkin
I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain. -- Paul Daniels
My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me. -- Jack LaLanne
People say I'm a disgrace to the human race. I love overweight women when they sit on my face. -- R.A. The Rugged Man
Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight... -- Matthew Quick
I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness. -- Gloria Estefan
You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight. -- Mark Hyman, M.D.
Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them. -- Richard Simmons
People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We live in homes with mirrors. -- Al Roker
I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body. -- Orla Brady
I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine. -- Stephen Furst
Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men. -- Richard Simmons
Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health. -- Stephen Furst
Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure. -- Sue Townsend
Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete? -- Chalene Johnson
I am really terrible when it comes to guys. Inside, I just see myself as this overweight tomboy with funny-coloured hair and bad skin. -- Katie McGrath
I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either. -- Martine McCutcheon
I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work. -- Peter Jackson
Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important. -- Jo Brand
It's true that Apollo 10's lander was overweight. Late in the craft's development, it became clear that its ballooning weight was endangering the whole mission. -- Henry Spencer
I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. -- David Eagleman
In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. -- Lois Capps
People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone. -- Octavia Spencer
People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy. -- Jonah Hill
In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body. -- Nan Goldin
When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was. -- Daphne Oz
I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change. I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical. -- Lorenzo Lamas
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics. -- Herschel Walker
People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems. -- David Satcher
Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight. -- Andrej Pejic
You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me. -- Richard Simmons
I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight. -- Lindsay Lohan
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P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment. -- Herschel Walker
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt. -- Ilona Andrews
The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave -- John Green
I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive. -- Phil McGraw
Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take. -- Jami Attenberg
There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes. -- Paula Deen
Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity. -- Darell Hammond
Saying "I'll start managing my money as soon as I get caught up" is like an overweight person saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as soon as I lose twenty pounds." -- T. Harv Eker
Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend. -- Cathy Guisewite
There are now more obese people in the United States than there are overweight people. I think it's safe to say that after all these years, Diet Coke is a complete failure. -- Jay Leno
I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill. -- Henry Cavill
Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life. -- Richard Simmons
In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it. -- Dean Ornish
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver. -- Gene Kelly
A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters. -- Ian K. Smith
We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.' -- Valentina Zelyaeva
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A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?" -- Graeme Simsion
Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, `Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?' -- Paul Giamatti
Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol. -- Craig David

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