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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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• If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.

  Greg Giraldo

  Careers, Excess, American Capitalism

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• I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

  Sean Astin

  Taken, Moments, Given

  "An Interview with Sean Astin". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 18, 2002.

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• I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260-pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295-pound now.

  James Gandolfini

  School, Kids, Things Change

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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• My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.

  Patrick Swayze

  Eye, Thinking, Mirrors

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• People need help, advice and love, not websites telling you how to lose your last pound, or scantily clad, deeply anorexic celebrities parading around flaunting their golden bones.

  Billie Piper

  People, Advice, And Love

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• My Nike Free sneakers add a splash of color and slide on fast, perfect for when Im rushing to catch the school bus. And my favorite cargos are skinny but stretchy, so I can go up or down a few pounds and they still fit!

  Jessica Seinfeld

  Nike, School, Color

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• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer

  Victoria Principal

  Years, Looks, Littles

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• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Thinking, Might, Versions

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• I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

  David Niven

  Two, Clothes, Complaining

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

  Michio Kaku

  Brain, Three, Solar System

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• I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

  Jackie Cooper

  Morning, Home, Night

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• I had to add Oguchi into the list. After all, he’s a soccer player—fittest athletes ever. At 6'4 210 pounds, he's one of the most feared men in the world's game.
  I've played against a lot of massive defenders. And no one has Oguchi's strength. His shoulders and chest are so big that people confuse him with an NFL player. He can move anyone in the game with one arm, including the best strikers in the world. Guys absolutely fear him.

  Charlie Davies

  Soccer, Moving, Athlete

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• All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

  Luther Vandross

  Tired, School, Journey

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• The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

  Pete Townshend

  Cost, Rock N Roll, Equipment

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• I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

  George W. Bush

  Lakes, Dumb, Bass

  "Big fish gave Bush biggest thrill", news.bbc.co.uk. May 7, 2006.

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