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"My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat."
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"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."

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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

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"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

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"I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number."

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"I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand."

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