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• When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.

  Benjamin Spock

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Years

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• Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

  Suzanne Somers

  People, Perfect, Age

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 6, 2007.

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• You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Life, Believe, Simple

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• Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls... I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.

  Melanie Brown

  Girl, Keys, Dancing

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

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• I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Garden, Years

  'Imitation of Horace' (1714).

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• Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Six, Remember

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.37

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• Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you'd like to lose a half pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times.

  Randy Glasbergen

  Funny, Humor, Loss

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• ...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food.

  Michael Pollan

  Cooking, Energy, East

  Michael Pollan (2006). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, p.180, Penguin

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• No scale to balance, what's in my heart.
  No numbers to measure, nor even to chart.
  This love can't be seen, in ounces or in pounds.
  For only through time, can it's value be found.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Love, Heart, Numbers

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• Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

  Jason Biggs

  Umpires, Lazy, Los Angeles

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• I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.

  Star Jones

  Nine, Fabulous, I Realized

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 10, 2006.

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• I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10", 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast.

  Jimmy Connors

  Tired, Cocky, Player

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• And here's Zivojinovic, six foot six inches tall and fourteen pounds ten ounces.

  Dan Maskell

  Feet, Tennis, Six

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• Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.

  Stephen Colbert

  Rivers, Jail, People

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• I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Senior, Sports, Spring

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• The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.

  Marian Diamond

  Science, Light, Hands

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• I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, 'I love what I look like and this is who I am,' or be the person who is obsessed with diet and exercise and keeping toned. What feels more realistic to me is that some days I wake up and think I love how I look. On other days I say, 'If I had real self-control, I would be 10 pounds lighter.' That contradiction is, to me, what being a girl actually feels like.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Zero, Real

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• If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

  Brad Bird

  Moving, Space, Littles

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• And remember, every pound you give leaves you a pound poorer.

  Hugh Dennis

  Giving, Remember

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• Pound for pound, your show is the best of its kind. I'm always learning from your great content!

  Craig Shoemaker

  Kind, Shows, Always Learning

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• I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really like you' to get me to see it. I think if you're too passive, you just fall into that friend role. And that's hard to break out of.

  Kiele Sanchez

  I Like You, Fall, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I lost 28 pounds in my divorce... because that's what a soul weighs.

  Christopher Titus

  Divorce, Soul, Lost

  "Love is Evol". Stand-up comedy, 2009.

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• Physically, I’m not tough. I may think tough. I would say I’m kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Thinking, Years, Feet

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• [Newlyweds,] these optimistic young bastards, promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and mid-life crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day when one of them is finally able to rest in peace. You know, because they can't hear the snoring anymore.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Rest In Peace, Motivation, Inspiration

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• It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

  Dan Barber

  Motivation, Inspiration, Tuna

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