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Diet Quotes

"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

Jim Davis, American Cartoonist

"My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication."

Della Reese, American Musician

Diet, Exercise, Help

"Hope is a very thin diet."

Thomas Shadwell, English Dramatist

"I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort."

William Banting, English Celebrity

Diet, Consequences, Fancy, Now

"The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it."

Jackie Gleason, American Actor

Diet, Day, First

"I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet."

Joely Fisher, American Actress

Diet, Food, Being

"I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy."

Deborah Bull, British Dancer

Diet, People, Energy

"We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet."

Steve Burton, American Actor

Diet, People, Opportunity, First

"There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong."

Ron White, American Comedian

Diet, Beer, Wrong, Years

"She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on."

Arthur Baer, American Humorist

"The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman."

Daniel D. Palmer, Canadian Celebrity

Diet, Physicians, Quiet

"I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat."

Oliver Reed, English Actor

Diet, Drinking, Wine

"I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised."

Rue McClanahan, American Actress

Diet, Family, History, Eating

"When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet."

Liv Tyler, American Actress

Diet, Time, First

"I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent."

Fannie Farmer, American Celebrity

Diet, Time, Work, Education

"I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it."

Ellen Burstyn, American Actress

"I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster."

Joe E. Lewis, American Comedian

"I have to be very careful about diet and exercise."

Taylor Dayne, American Musician

"Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor

Diet, Hate, Nothing, Value

"The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant."

Carol Vorderman, British Entertainer

"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

Diet, Successful, Training

"I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now."

Lara Flynn Boyle, American Actress

Diet, Body, Now, Years

"I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight."

Carre Otis, American Model

Diet, Drugs, Weight

"I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks."

Totie Fields, American Comedian

"Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all."

Rube Goldberg, American Cartoonist

Diet, March, Now

"My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away."

Carol Burnett, American Actress

"I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet."

Katie Holmes, American Actress

"I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can."

Lou Gramm, American Musician

"I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate."

Warren Cuccurullo, American Musician

Diet, Food, Thought

"I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

Diet, Living, Years

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