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• T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, House, Generations

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I went through a lifestyle change when I dropped 40 pounds. Taking care of my diet was the first thing I did.

  Mark Spitz

  Care, Firsts, Lifestyle

  Source: hk.asiatatler.com

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• Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Doors, Soul, Enemy

  Saint Francis (de Sales), Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, Wendy M. Wright, Joseph F. Power (1988). “Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: letters of spiritual direction”

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• On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Night, Decline, Output

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• Al Roker said I am 80 years 'young'; it's like saying Al Roker is 320 pounds 'thin'.

  Joan Rivers

  Years, Als, Said

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• Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.

  Betty Jane Wylie

  People, Would Be, Feels

  Betty Jane Wylie (1986). “Successfully single: how to live alone and like it”

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• I think art must be tough! I think art has to be hard. I don't think it should be easy. I think it should take foot-pounds of energy to produce that art, otherwise we would have more mediocre writers, and we don't have room for any more mediocrity in the world. There's already enough of it being visited on us night and day through the Internet, and through television, and through politics.

  Harlan Ellison

  Art, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• He that needs five thousand pound to live,
  Is full as poor as he that needs but five.

  George Herbert

  Needs, Poor, Thousand

  George Herbert (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of George Herbert (Illustrated)”, p.38, Delphi Classics

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• I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.

  Eve Ensler

  Ideas, Poison, Body

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never met, eating sprouted grains I can't pronounce and ultimately losing 14 pounds off my 5'3" frame. Losing 14 pounds out of necessity in order to live a healthier life is a huge victory. I'm a petite person to begin with, so the idea of my losing this amount of weight is utter lunacy. If I were to lose 14 pounds, I'd have to part with both arms. And a foot.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Workout, Stars, Ideas

  "Scarlett Johansson denies being on Iron Man diet" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2009.

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• To stimulate optimal size and strength increases, it's imperative that you regularly attempt the momentarily impossible. For example, if you can curl 100 pounds for a maximum of 10 reps, but never attempt the 11th, your body has no reason to enlarge upon its existing capacity. It is only by regularly attempting to go beyond your existing capacity that inroads are made into your body's reserves.

  Mike Mentzer

  Curls, Example, Body

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• The 800 pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, with Google launching its blog search.

  Charlene Li

  Google, Gorillas, Launching

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• For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

  Eric Fellner

  Impact, Relative Value, Dollars

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 27, 2012.

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• I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

  Rupert Giles

  Pride, Thinking, Order

  "Fictional chracter: Rupert Giles". TV Series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ("Some Assembly Required", 1997), www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• You lose like five pounds immediately, and your face is glowing and gorgeous!

  Kirsten Dunst

  Glowing, Faces, Gorgeous

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• A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice.

  Homer

  Ice, Feet, Six

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• My goal, whenever entering a project, is always to gain 12 pounds.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Goal, Entering, Gains

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When you're in young love your pulse pounds, your palms sweat, and there are butterflies in your stomach. It's like diarrhea for your heart.

  Daniel Tosh

  Love You, Heart, Butterfly

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• I walk around at 150-152 pounds to weigh 147 pounds. Other boxers weigh around 160-170 before coming down.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Boxers, Walks

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• The greenest fuels are the ones that contain the most energy per pound of material that must be mined, trucked, pumped, piped, and burnt. [In contrast], extracting comparable amounts of energy from the surface would entail truly monstrous environmental disruption.... The greenest possible strategy is to mine and to bury, to fly and to tunnel, to search high and low, where the life mostly isn't, and so to leave the edge, the space in the middle, living and green.

  Peter W. Huber

  Tunnels, Space, Environmental

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• To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, and drove it into the bosom of Lloyds TSB Bank, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers.

  John Sentamu

  Strong, Bystanders, Hbo

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• CSNY is a little like putting seven pounds of stuff in a three pound bag.

  David Crosby

  Three, Bags, Littles

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• Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.

  George Orwell

  Exercise, Normal, Cheese

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England”, p.353, Penguin UK

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• U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Organization

  "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)". Book by Dave Barry, 2007.

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• Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. And we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.

  Samuel Smiles

  Exercise, Dark, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1868). “Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles”, p.391

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