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• Oliver's heart tried to pound its way out of his ribcage, but he ignored it. "I'm in love with Petunia," he announced. "And I want to help her.

  Jessica Day George

  Heart, Want, Way

  Jessica Day George (2012). “Princess of the Silver Woods”, p.204, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Take a nap
  Making the mountain water
  Pound the rice.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Inspirational, Naps, Water

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• I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous.

  Fergie

  Beauty, Women, Focus

  "It's a Fergie World". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 31, 2008.

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• If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Fitness, Running, Exercise

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• Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

  Julia Child

  Block, Food, Cooking

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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• When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

  Reba McEntire

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Millions

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• A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Men, Focus

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4583, e-artnow

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• No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Mother, Women, Successful

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• I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds!

  Beth Ditto

  Music, Dog, Work Out

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• Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

  John Stark

  Military, Sleep, Patriotic

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• Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

  Mickey Mantle

  Courage, Piano, Smell

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

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• Chubby Checker lost pounds by demonstrating how to move as if you were 'drying your back with a towel' − the substitution of the word 'back' for 'bottom' indicates the oddly wholesome image of the Twist.

  Jan Murray

  Dance, Moving, Twists

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• An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

  Sanford Meisner

  Theatre, Acting, Behavior

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.4, Vintage

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• The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

  Samuel Johnson

  Optimistic, Positive Thinking, Years

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• Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.

  Charles Schumer

  Immigration, Administration, Problem

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• Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, History

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• If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  "Jeff Bezos: Amazon.com Architect". Book by Tom Robinson, 2009.

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• I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

  Jay Leno

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?

  Andy Rooney

  Cheating, Coffee, Together

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• In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chilies , a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Coffee, Eggs, Two

  "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson".

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• With Browns' ticket prices what they are, you just know that all those dads who brought the entire family to sit in the 'dog pound' are secretly calculating how much blood they're going to have to sell next week to put groceries on the table.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Dog, Dad

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• Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we could run our models at a higher resolution we could do a much better job-tomorrow-in terms of our seasonal and decadal predictions. It's so frustrating. We keep saying we need four times the computing power. We're talking just 10 or 20 million a year-dollars or pounds-which is tiny compared to the damage done by disasters. Yet it's a difficult argument to win.

  Julia Slingo

  Running, Jobs, Winning

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• I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!

  Jane Wagner

  Inspiring, Loss, Deja Vu

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• For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.

  Steve King

  Memorable, Marijuana, People

  "Rep. Steve King Slams Norquist Over Attacks on Immigration". Interview with Todd Beamon and John Bachman, www.newsmax.com. July 18, 2013.

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• If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Creative, Opponents

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