Pounds Quotes - Page 24

• In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

  Creed Bratton

  Children, Artist, Posters

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• The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

  David Eagleman

  Self, Skulls, Consistency

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.

  Rod Stewart

  Girl, Quality, Lasts

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• Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

  Garrison Keillor

  Trust, Paper, Littles

  "The Times Book of Quotations". Book by HarperCollins, 2000.

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• The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

  Paul McCartney

  Feelings, Politics, Failing

  Song: The Pound Is Sinking

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• Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. She's walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she's out of her mind, drunk.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Morning, Thug, College

  "I was followed, harassed, and ambushed by Bill O’Reilly’s producer". thinkprogress.org. August 2, 2006.

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• I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.

  Tom Hardy

  Warrior, Guy, Looks

  Interview with GQ, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. June 15th, 2012,.

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• Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

  David Johansen

  Hate, Acting, Roles

  "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.

  Star Jones

  Mean, Journey, Weight

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• Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

  Patsy Kensit

  Mean, Media, Age

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• Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

  Augustus William Hare

  Money, Want

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• I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

  Gene Kelly

  Strong, Twenties, Hollywood

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• Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.

  Stacy Keibler

  Holiday, Vacation, Leaving

  "Stacy Keibler’s Sexy And Speedy Beauty Look". Interview with Dana Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.

  Jonah Lehrer

  People, Giving, Meat

  "Jonah Lehrer: We can all be as creative as Picasso... we just have to learn how". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.

  Steve Mariucci

  People, League, Guy

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• I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

  Kathy Najimy

  Eight, Hovering, Size

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• There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights.

  Kathy Najimy

  Different, Weight

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• I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

  Nick Offerman

  Moderation, Appetite, Strict

  "Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview". Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.laweekly.com. November 22, 2011.

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• When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

  Tea Obreht

  Mother, Black And White, Eight

  "Téa Obreht" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.

  Jackson Browne

  Dream, Children, Struggle

  Song: The Pretender, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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• I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.

  James Laughlin

  Thinking, People, Might

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• We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

  Andy Partridge

  Cost, Gigs, Stealing

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• We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

  John Prescott

  Believe, House, Given

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• I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.

  Nicole Richie

  Looks, Persons, Five

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• There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

  Gail Simmons

  Real, America, Worry

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