Marilyn Wann quotes

“The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.”
-- Marilyn Wann

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“It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.”
-- Marilyn Wann

Source : "Is weight the new race?" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2006.

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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.”

“Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

“AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.”

“[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.”

“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”

“John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator.”

Source : "As Serious As Your Life". Book by Valerie Wilmer, 1977.