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• I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Pregnancy, Yoga, Thinking

  "Life lessons from Gisele Bündchen" by Karen Hawthorne, nationalpost.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

  Sophia Bush

  Looks, Gains, Five

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

  David Cameron

  Welfare, Billions, Millions

  "David Cameron claims welfare reform will save in the long run" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2010.

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• In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

  David Cameron

  Race, Numbers, Focus

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• I thought to myself, "Join the army!" It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.

  John Candy

  Army, Stripes, Loses

  "Fictional character: Dewey Oxburger (Ox)". "Stripes", www.imdb.com. June 26, 1981.

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• You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.

  Steve Carell

  Kids, Years, Turkeys

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• I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I wanted to do was get out of bed in the morning and walk to my office and sit back down in the chair. Now I throw 50 pound bags of horse feed in the back of my pickup truck and I don't even think about it. I'm back doing those things.

  Dick Cheney

  Morning, Horse, Heart

  "Exclusive: Dick Cheney opens up about heart disease battle in new book". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2013.

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• I sound the same regardless if I'm 20 pounds heavier or 20 pounds light, and I think that's the key thing with my fans and why they continue to be loyal because I'm that type of person.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Thinking, Keys, Light

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• We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.

  Joan Collins

  Beautiful, Insecure, Wrinkles

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• Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.

  Lauren Conrad

  Differences, People, Dresses

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• Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, World

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• I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.

  Simon Cowell

  Home, Safe, England

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• For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Doom And Gloom, Marketing

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• In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Party, Your Side

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• I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

  Bobby Darin

  Turtles, House, Gone

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• The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Girl, Kissing, First Kiss

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• The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

  Bruce Dickinson

  Want, Aviation, Ifs

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• Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

  Sylvia Earle

  Land, Meat, Plant

  "Can We Stop Killing Our Oceans Now, Please?" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

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• I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

  Brian Eno

  Guitar, Years, Use

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• It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

  Nigel Farage

  People, Giving, Immigration

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• I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.

  Chris Farley

  Nuts, Trying, Weight

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.

  America Ferrera

  Beautiful, Stars, Women

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

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• An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

  Thomas Fuller

  Happiness, Sad, God

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.

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• Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mother, Giving, Months

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