Quotes About Acceptance

I carry a lot of my weight in my stomach. I just want to have... not even a number, but to have my body in a different shape.

Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.

Whatever people can stomach, I say go for it.

I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.

You might not be able to stomach it, but as long as you can mind it, your heart will be all right.

You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.

I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

My family was really big on college, and it was hard for them to stomach that I was going to be a hairdresser.

For me, when I have those moments of getting down on my body - let's say, for example, my stomach doesn't look my stomach before I had kids, just saying - that bums me out, so I really have to shift that negative into a positive and get really grateful for the fact that my body delivered me two amazing little girls.

I don't have the flattest stomach in the world; I wear looser cuts so I can eat a bowl of pasta if I want to.

In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.

There are always people who are desperate to put you in your one camp and never let you leave. The idea that you could be interested in the Yazidi community and also in lipstick blows people's minds. It's a really short-sighted, Stone Age attitude; it's boring, actually.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people.

When I was pretending not to be pregnant, I knew where I stood with everyone, and I knew that the world would accept me; I knew where I fit.

Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white, Hispanic, any of that stuff.

I'm proud to have stood with the LGBTQ community my entire career.

I grew up basically in a predominantly, you know, white community and I was mixed but as a kid you don't know that. So I was always different, always stood out and people would always make fun of me.

You can't stop getting older; you just have to keep going and laugh a lot.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

The world doesn't stop spinning for anybody.