Pounds Quotes - Page 35

• My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

  Lady Gaga

  Father, Gains, Restaurants

  "Lady Gaga Discusses Weight Gain, Reveals Culinary Guilty Pleasures". Interview with Elvis Duran, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Cute, Past, Years

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• I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

  James Gandolfini

  Character, Men, Play

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

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• A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

  James A. Garfield

  Inspirational, Humor, Good Luck

  "President Garfield and Education: Hiram College Memorial". Book by Burke Aaron Hinsdale, 1882.

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• Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

  Buddy Hackett

  Cocky, Ninety Nine, Voice

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• I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one's knees and shoulders - no one wants to do it again. I'm 57 and I don't think I'm going to take on any job or go on vacation again and see to it that I can gain 30 pounds.

  Tom Hanks

  Jobs, Thinking, Vacation

  "Tom Hanks: type 2 diabetes diagnosis means end of weightier roles" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2013.

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• For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

  Robert Harris

  People, House, Gold

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• Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Crazy, Literature, Madness

  "The New York Post" Newspaper, January 24, 1957.

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• It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

  Marilu Henner

  Thanksgiving, New Year, Average

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• I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

  Damien Hirst

  Wall, Students, Painting

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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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• When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

  Adam Lambert

  School, Stem, String Theory

  "Adam Lambert: I once weighed 250 pounds". Interview with Larry Flick on Sirius satellite radio's "Morning Jolt", www.cnn.com. December 1, 2009.

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• At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.

  Taylor Lautner

  Two, One Day, Meals

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

  Taylor Lautner

  Twilight, Home, Moon

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

  Annie Lennox

  Poverty, Week, Knows

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• Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Night

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• If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

  Courtney Love

  Daughter, Mother, Smart

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• One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

  James Lovelock

  Oil, Coal, Uranium

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• Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

  Rachel McAdams

  Running, Travel, Workout

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• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  Ian Mcewan

  Virginia, Years, Risk

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• Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

  Moby

  Unhappy, Wake Up, Today

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• I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

  Shemar Moore

  Fall, Chinese, Machines

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

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• I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

  Howard Nemerov

  Thinking, Innovation, Literature

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