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• I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Guy, Training, Navy

  "Liam Hemsworth & Josh Hutcherson Talk Gale & Peeta in ‘The Hunger Games’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

  Hugh Jackman

  Government, Years, White

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• My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

  Hugh Jackman

  Father, Opportunity, Ideas

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• I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I'm not a vegan for health reasons - although obviously I'm 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that's true. But I'm a vegan for compassionate reasons.

  Russell Simmons

  Feel Better, Healthy, Looks

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• For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Educational, Giving, Debt

  "Iain Duncan Smith to unveil new ways of measuring child poverty" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

  Rod Stewart

  Men, Velvet, Minutes

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• I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

  Carrie Underwood

  Fighting, Chocolate, Battle

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• My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

  Nia Vardalos

  New Year, Years, Desire

  "The List" by Nia Vardalos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2009.

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• A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

  Jesse Ventura

  Car, Hours, Miles

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Seems, I Can

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• I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.

  Christopher Walken

  Spaghetti, Thirty, Used

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

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• You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

  Cynthia Weil

  Believe, Doors, Long

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• Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

  Carnie Wilson

  Whole Life, Whole

  "Carnie Wilson: "It's Dawning On Me That My Health Has To Come First"". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

  Carnie Wilson

  Half, Weight, Four

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• When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.

  Carnie Wilson

  Crazy, Water, Vitamins

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• Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

  John Wesley

  Love, Book, Reading

  In R. Southey 'Life of Wesley' (1820) ch. 16

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• We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.

  Richard Bach

  Block, Past, Years

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• I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Dog, Animal, Thinking

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.

  E. Nesbit

  Brother, Children, Thinking

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.77, Delphi Classics

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• In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Views, Nineteen

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.148, Macmillan

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• You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

  Djuna Barnes

  Men, Philosopher, Beats

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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• I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Baby, Morning

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period." "Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.

  Tamora Pierce

  Fighting, People, Helping

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Page: Book 2 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.59, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under.

  L.A. Meyer

  Boots, Easy, Knows

  L. A. Meyer (2007). “Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber”, p.308, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Two, Plowing, Half

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.156, Penguin Group

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