Pounds Quotes - Page 5

• Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some system. Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.' Where does it end? You just have to say, 'It's pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I'm OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'

  Melissa McCarthy

  Thinking, Trying, Proud

  "Funny Girl: Exclusive Interview with Melissa McCarthy". Interview with David A. Keeps, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I don't feel like my work is dependent on my size. I feel like my work is dependent on the fact that I'm an everywoman. I'd be an everywoman if I lost 20 pounds or if I gained 50 pounds, because of my attitude and it's my relationship to the world and the fact that like I have two front teeth that are bigger than the rest of my teeth.

  Lena Dunham

  Attitude, Two, Teeth

  Time Interview, www.today.com. April 2012.

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• I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, "I feel fat." Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, "Oh, I look like a woman." And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it.

  Christina Hendricks

  Beautiful, Confidence, Mom

  "Christina Hendricks: Curvy, confident, gorgeous". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.cnn.com. July 6, 2010.

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• It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside, which Keegan will soon discover, is the law of diminishing returns in a league that is now the richest in the world. The type of multi-million-pound investment that bankrolled the first Newcastle revival under Keegan is now two-a-penny. Buying success just isn't as easy as it used to be. The Premiership's paradox is that the more money there is, the more the art of management gains in value.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Art

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• Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.

  John Burroughs

  Nature, Law, Giving

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an engineer's calculations as are the symbols indicating feet, minutes, pounds, or gallons. ... This statement, while true in regard to the work of all engineers, applies particularly to that of the mechanical engineer.

  Henry R. Towne

  Feet, Dollars, Economics

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• After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Firsts, Easy, Economics

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.165, Applewood Books

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• If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Gold, Tickets

  "Taking Money Back" by Murray Rothbard, The Freeman, September-October 1995.

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• Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

  Murray Rothbard

  Money, Oil, Discovery

  "Making Economic Sense". Book by Murray Rothbard (p. 274), 1995.

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• Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

  Maya Angelou

  Weight, Want, Truth Of Life

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• I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond.

  David Massengill

  Song, Mistake, Writing

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• I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.

  Cindy Margolis

  Party, Pregnancy, Being A Mom

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• Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Attention, Pay

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• That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Men, Boxing

  "Sugar Ray Robinson tribute part 2", www.youtube.com. July 26, 2006.

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• I'm going to give Vargas the chance to cash his last paycheck. I would like to say publicly that Fatty Vargas has always feared me. I conceded to take this fight at 162 pounds because fatty couldn't lose any more weight. I will do Vargas a favor by retiring him in this fight so his family doesn't have to suffer every time he steps in the ring. I'm going to do his wife a favor and not let her cry anymore.

  Ricardo Mayorga

  Fighting, Boxing, Giving

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• Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.

  Don King

  War, Animal, Men

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• The match would have to be made at 165 pounds. Sean can't make 160 any more, even though he's drinking lite beer these days

  Angelo Dundee

  Drinking, Beer, Boxing

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• They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce.

  Willie Pep

  Funny, Sports, Boxing

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• I always say we got 700 pounds of pork up front. They're going to hold guys down and allow us linebackers to make a lot of plays. Even in practice. I'm loving it, man.

  Takeo Spikes

  Men, Practice, Play

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• Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.

  Mike Goldberg

  Boys, Used, Mark

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• I only weigh 98 pounds. The rest of this is liver.

  Mimi Imfurst

  Liver

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• I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.

  Olivia Wilde

  Naked, Boxes, Beckham

  "Olivia Wilde, Rashida Jones, Zosia Mamet Talk Sex & Why ‘You Can’t Lie To Your Vagina’" by Emma Gray, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2012.

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• My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds. After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I’m just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

  Miranda Lambert

  Healthy, Trying, Dieting

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• There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don’t want to be skinny. I’m constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don’t beat myself up over it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Self, Always Trying, Example

  "Mindy Kaling Makes Her Vogue Debut, Proudly Tells the Magazine: 'I Don't Want to Be Skinny'" by Zach Johnson, www.eonline.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I can look at a chick who's a little out of shape and if she turns me on, I won't hesitate to date her. If she's a good f**k she can weigh 150 pounds, I don't care.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Looks, Care, Shapes

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