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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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• In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

  Stephen King

  Two, Voice, Criticism

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• Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

  Daniel Handler

  Boredom, Fists, Boring

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• I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Speech, Silent Man

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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• Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Money, Business

  David Copperfield ch. 12 (1850)

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• When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Depressing, Jobs, Hate

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• There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.

  Lionel Shriver

  Hero, Responsibility, Heart

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• As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars.

  James Gleick

  Book, Gun, Technology

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• On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches." (James Frey, pg.1)

  James Frey

  Men, Lunch, Jail

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.7, Penguin

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• Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mexican, Lsd, Combination

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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