Samara Weaving

I think it's very important to be mindful of your body and actually listen to it. If I'm craving a certain kind of food, I'll have, but I notice when I'm full. It's kind of like a logical diet. I think when people go on restrictive diets, they put too much stress on themselves, which might make them prone to bingeing.

Australian Actress

Joe Wicks

I eat three home-cooked meals a day, all prepared in advance. My ethos is to stay away from unsustainable low-calorie diets and aim for something balanced: loads of veg, protein and enjoy the carbs you love. Be realistic. I don't count sugar or salt or grams of fat: it's very restrictive and unenjoyable.

British Author

Eva Hesse

If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner being, on solely myself. I will strip me of superficial dishonesties. I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed.

American Sculptor

Harry Seidler

The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

Australian Architect

Roisin Murphy

There's a great deal of tension between so many kind of distinctive and restrictive female archetypes and images in the world. When you play with the archetypes, you get free.

Irish Musician

Irving Babbitt

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

American Critic

Russell M. Nelson

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

American Clergyman

Vijay Krishna Acharya

Gandhi protested against restrictive policies. So did 'Guru.

Indian Director

Dale Steyn

I'm normally quite restrictive in the runs department.

South African Athlete

Prince

American Singer

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 disagreement between liberals and conservatives because liberals reject three of these foundations they say no let's celebrate diversity not common in group membership they say let's question authority and they say keep your laws off my body liberals have very noble motives for doing this traditional authority traditional morality can be quite repressive and restrictive to those at

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 learns how to fold that crane. So this art has been around for hundreds of years, and you would think something that's been around that long -- so restrictive, folding only -- everything that could be done has been done a long time ago. And that might have been the case. But in the twentieth century,

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 Just like Hurston, Janie defies the restrictive expectations for a woman in her time. Early in the novel, Hurston writes that “there are years that ask questions and years that answer,” suggesting that life can only truly be understood by living it. But through her empathetic storytelling,

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 And if you had to type the formula in yourself, you'd know what to do. Restricting you to a grid helped solve my problem. It also opened up new capabilities, like the ability to have ranges of cells. But it wasn't too restrictive -- you could still put any value, any formula, in any cell.

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 because I was supposedly born in the wrong body? But it's this type of structuring that has to be reframed in order to let love in. My body never betrayed me, and my body was never wrong. It's this restrictive, binary thinking on gender that said that I didn't exist.

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 car ownership than other countries in the world these cars created a powerful new group the auto industry and they lobbied washington very very strongly to oppose any car restrictive measures the auto industry got all kinds of pro car

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 would follow one or more restrictive customs on their periods every month. Can you imagine what this does to the self-esteem and self-confidence of a young girl? The psychological trauma that this inflicts, affecting her personality,

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 discovered learned and passed down the generations keeping an eye out for your family and friends is an important part of their culture too instincts in animals generally are automatic restrictive but reliable but learning

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 I established on her last loan, I'm going to withhold her ability to get more money from me, until she pays it back. True story, by the way. Now, adults seem to have a prevalently restrictive attitude towards kids,

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 In a Moment of Vision It's the 1920s. Flapper fashion prevails. Woman conceal their figures in straight-sided gowns and restrictive bandeaus.

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