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• The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It's 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It's a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them.

  Joe Nichols

  Iraq, Soldier, Degrees

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• Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

  Tom Ford

  Flattering, Jackets

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• Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

  Thomas Starr King

  Mad

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• In my day, if a guy came to spring training 20 pounds heavier than what he left, he was considered out of shape and was probably in trouble.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Spring, Guy, Training

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• I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.

  Nick Carter

  Loss, Exercise, Long

  "Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter Opens Up About 65 Pound Weight Loss" by Deidre Behar, www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2011.

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• If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Loyalty, Men, Thinking

  Sir Arthur Helps, John W. Ferguson, William T. Fenton, Francis Bacon, Elbert Hubbard (1913). “The Transaction of Business”

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• Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, Abortion, Sin

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• I am not bound by material things. It's being successful that drives me forward. I love success. I don't wake up in the morning thinking 'Great - I've got one million pounds in the bank'. I wake up happy because I am a successful part of a successful team. It's that success that brings all the media coverage, the first-night parties, the endorsements. I will never lose sight of that. It has come very quickly - sooner than even I expected. But it's great to know that if I continue in the same vein, then I can do exactly what I want with the rest of my life. I will be financially secure.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Morning, Team, Party

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• You don't get hurt running straight ahead...three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit.

  Woody Hayes

  Running, Hurt, Clouds

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• Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong, is also largely pneumatic - especially in the bigger birds. The beak, skull, feet, and all the other bones of a 25-pound pelican have been found to weigh but 23 ounces.

  Guy Murchie

  Strong, Skeletons, Skulls

  Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.220, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

  Patty Duke

  Bipolar, Weight, Disease

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.152, Bantam

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• One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.

  Charles Kelley

  Thanksgiving, Morning, Brother

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• Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Perseverance, Giving, Goal

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• Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

  Edna Buchanan

  Children, Book, Writing

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• If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Bankers, Investing, Mercy

  Time magazine, February 17, 1947.

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• I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.

  Jacques Pepin

  Son, Two, Three

  Jacques Pepin (2004). “The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

  David Lee Roth

  Murphys Law, Performances

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• When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Literature, Four, They Said

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.94

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• I saw...a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs.

  Bill Hicks

  Kids, People, Saws

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• Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.

  Tom Robbins

  Track, Lust, World

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• The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Air, Pulse, Stones

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “The Book of Daniel: A Novel”, p.6, Random House

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• Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense

  Roger Waters

  Perfect, Dollars, Cents

  Song: Perfect Sense, Part II

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• If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

  Regina Brett

  Writing, Phones, Order

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

  Caitlin Moran

  Night, Rocks, Two

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