lifestyle quotes

The dieting wars have got to stop.

I don’t care about money.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I’m very free-spirited.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

This way of life is worth defending.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

I like to take it easy.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I don’t have a need for speed. I’m not that guy.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.