Quotes for 1/31/2012

• Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender. (Carre Otis)
• 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)
• I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling. (Carre Otis)
• I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery. (Carre Otis)
• It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks. (Carre Otis)
• Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation. (Carre Otis)
• My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling. (Carre Otis)
• Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol. (Carre Otis)
• The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job. (Carre Otis)
• We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences. (Carre Otis)
• You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying. (Carre Otis)
• What has worked for me is therapy in conjunction with nutritionist who specializes in eating disorders that I see Carre Otis every two weeks. (Carre Otis)
• Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and Carre Otis alcohol. (Carre Otis)
• What has worked for me is therapy in conjunction with nutritionist who specializes in eating disorders that I see every two weeks. (Carre Otis)
• It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks (Carre Otis)
• I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. (Carre Otis)
• The starvation weakened my heart. (Carre Otis)
• Virgil Fox: [about the first day of freshman year] I have a chance to be somebody! Charlie Tuttle: All right, but know this. What happened down there is we became friends. That day we were tied to that stupid Rams statue. This day, this day that you hate so much because you got a little embarrassed. This is my favorite day. Even though I'd still be a nerd, it didn't really matter anymore. Because I had a real friend. And that would always make everything okay. So much for always, I guess. (Carre Otis)
• Jeanette: What's new, cockatoo? Hey, you look like a superhero! Charlie Tuttle: Thanks, pumpkin. [seizes Jeanette and kisses her] Zeke Thompson: [after Charlie lets go, in an undertone] The scene in the hallway hasn't happened yet, you've never kissed her before! Charlie Tuttle: Oh, right! [turns to the leaving Jeanette] Charlie Tuttle: Jeanette! Jeanette, I-I'm sorry, I was just-I can explain! [as Jeanette is leaving, she smiles] Author Unknown in Minutemen Zeke Thompson: Dude. It's okay. (Carre Otis)
• Virgil Fox: The Minutemen must use their powers for truth and justice Charlie Tuttle: Who's the Minutemen Virgil Fox: Us. The all important minutes of time. Cool, eh? Charlie Tuttle: No Author Unknown in Minutemen Zeke Thompson: Not Really (Carre Otis)
• Jeanette: Charlie! Charlie, um, come back in one piece, okay? [kisses Charlie, who is frozen in shock] Zeke Thompson, Virgil Fox: Come on, Charlie, we gotta go. Charlie? Charlie! [Charlie still stands there, staring as Zeke picks him up Author Unknown in Minutemen and walks away with Virgil] (Carre Otis)
• Virgil Fox: You're 14 years old. You're 2 years away from your driver's license. You still call your underwear underpants. Yet I'm supposed to believe you can build a time machine? Charlie Tuttle: Yes. And based on my specifications, a person should be able to go 48 hours into the past. Virgil Fox: That's weak Charlie Tuttle: Pardon me. How's YOUR time formula Author Unknown in Minutemen coming along? (Carre Otis)
• Charlie Tuttle: I know there's got to be an important use for the time machine. Virgil Fox: What's more important then being rich and Author Unknown in Minutemen popular? I'm kidding... mostly. (Carre Otis)
• Virgil Fox: Senior year and I'm still sitting at the dork table... No offence guys, I do enjoy the stimulating conversations... Author Unknown in Minutemen Chester: None taken! (Carre Otis)
• Virgil Fox: Tell me I don't look as ridiculous as you do? Author Unknown in Minutemen Charlie Tuttle: It's not that bad, really. (Carre Otis)
• Zeke Thompson: That's it, NO MORE TIME TRAVEL! (Carre Otis)
• Coach Nibly: I've got to get me one of those cool Author Unknown in Minutemen jogging suits. (Carre Otis)
• Derek Beaugard: Nice snowsuits dorks. Virgil Fox: Hey Derek. Derek Beaugard: Yeah. Virgil Fox: Have fun with Jocelyn. Derek Beaugard: I don't know what you are talking about. Virgil Fox: Well i just figured that you both are good with lipstick. Derek Beaugard: You were always going to be a nerd. Author Unknown in Minutemen Virgil Fox: And you were always going to be a jerk. (Carre Otis)
• Stephanie Jameson: Mon petit ami est un cerveau menteur de fromage Derek Beaugard: You see, that's why I need her help. I haven't a clue what you just said. Stephanie Jameson: I said, my boyfriend is a lying Author Unknown in Minutemen cheese brain (Carre Otis)
• Virgil Fox: [in front of the whole high school cafeteria] You robbed NASA? Charlie Tuttle: [pulls both his friends under the table and whispers] It's not as bad as it sounds. Author Unknown in Minutemen Virgil Fox: Yes, this is *worse* than it sounds! (Carre Otis)
• [after the guys go back in time to stop Chester from being bullied, thus inadvertently turning him into a bully himself] Mr. Tolkan: [stops Chester from bullying his former tormenters] Chester, last that I remember you were at the bottom of the food chain. And I will not *tolerate* Author Unknown in Minutemen students leap frogging into a higher social status! (Carre Otis)
• [Stephanie and her boyfriend Derek sit in Virgil's house, trying to convince him going back in time to stop Chester from streaking and thus ruining Derek's game] Derek Beaugard: I don't know what's got into all the nerds lately. It's like they just... don't know their place Author Unknown in Minutemen anymore. (Carre Otis)
• Charlie Tuttle: [about to step in his time machine when he notices what Zeke has in his hands] Oh yes, we mustn't forget the grappling hook. Zeke Thompson: Oh, everybody's gotta make fun of Author Unknown in Minutemen the hook... you'll be sorry. (Carre Otis)
• [after skipping without notice hanging out in Charlie's room in favor of Derek's party] Virgil Fox: Charlie, how many more times do I have to apologize? Author Unknown in Minutemen Charlie Tuttle: 212 times ought to do it. (Carre Otis)
• Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether. (Greil Marcus)
• Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits. (Greil Marcus)
• We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail. (Greil Marcus)
• Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree. (Alfred Marshall)
• All labour is directed towards producing some effect. (Alfred Marshall)
• All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. (Alfred Marshall)
• And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned. (Alfred Marshall)
• But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. (Alfred Marshall)
• Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. (Alfred Marshall)
• Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. (Alfred Marshall)
• Consumption may be regarded as negative production. (Alfred Marshall)
• In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. (Alfred Marshall)
• In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. (Alfred Marshall)
• In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose. (Alfred Marshall)
• Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law. (Alfred Marshall)
• It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character. (Alfred Marshall)
• Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time. (Alfred Marshall)
• Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. (Alfred Marshall)
• Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. (Alfred Marshall)
• The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century. (Alfred Marshall)
• The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. (Alfred Marshall)
• All art is an imitation of nature. ( Seneca the Younger)
• An unpopular rule is never long maintained. ( Seneca the Younger)
• As was his language so was his life. ( Seneca the Younger)
• Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. ( Seneca the Younger)
• Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. ( Seneca the Younger)
• Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. ( Seneca the Younger)
• Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance. ( Seneca the Younger)
• Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. ( Seneca the Younger)
• Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. ( Seneca the Younger)
• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ( Seneca the Younger)
• Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. ( Seneca the Younger)
• Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. ( Seneca the Younger)
• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ( Seneca the Younger)
• He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another. ( Seneca the Younger)
• He who spares the wicked injures the good. ( Seneca the Younger)
• He will live ill who does not know how to die well. ( Seneca the Younger)

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