Pounds Quotes

• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  Mae West

  Funny, Business, Commitment

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Art, Eye, Joy

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• I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, People, Giving

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

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• I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

  Cher

  Girl, Money, Pet

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• It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Honey, Bees, Enough

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• Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

  Michael Moss

  Years, Sound, Use

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2013

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• Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Yoga, Cutting, Gym Rats

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• Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

  Mitch Daniels

  Real, Marijuana, Smoking

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• I believe in goal-setting. I don't care what it is. If you want to drop 10 pounds, increase your bench press, jump higher, or win a Super Bowl, you have to set that goal for yourself before you go out and achieve it. I think you have to regulate it, and see how you're building toward it every single day. Am I getting closer to that ultimate goal? Am I doing everything I possibly can today to be successful? I'm always very cognitive of my goals.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Believe, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

  Ezra Pound

  Life, Freedom, Waiting

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• The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

  Ezra Pound

  Peace, Real, War

  Ezra Pound (1970). “A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

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• Literature is news that stays news.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Inspiration, Reading

  The ABC of Reading ch. 2 (1934)

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• I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

  Henry Rollins

  Strength, Running, Workout

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.290, Villard

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• Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  People, Skinny, Persons

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• Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

  Brendan Behan

  Funny, Money, World

  Brendan Behan (1968). “The wit of Brendan Behan”

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• New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, New York, Rip

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• When I found out I had to take off my shirt in Teen movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, "It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle."

  Chris Evans

  Children, Needs, Littles

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

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• It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Sports, Jobs

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

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• Natural childbirth scares me. I think before you have natural childbirth you should find out how big the baby is. Three pounds -- natural childbirth. Anything over three pounds -- heroin.

  Rita Rudner

  Baby, Thinking, Scare

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• That pipe, just so happens to lead to the room where I make the most delicious flavored chocolate covered fudge." Then he will be made into strawberry flavoered chocolate covered fudge, they'll be selling him by the pound, all over the world!" No, I wouldn't allow it. The taste would be terrible. Can you imagine Augustus flavored chocolate covered gloop? Ew. No one would buy it.

  Johnny Depp

  Chocolate, Would Be, Fudge

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• Then someone started pounding on the door. And not a little "Hey, what's up?" pound. Like there was a big sale on door pounds down at the Pound Outlet. Buy one, get one free at Pounds-n-Stuff. --Being the Journal of Abby Normal

  Christopher Moore

  Doors, Hey, Littles

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Bite Me”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

  Stevie Nicks

  Inspiring, Sexy, Women

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• I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled suntan lotion spread over 2,100 pounds of hot flesh. I have been addressed as "Mon" in three different nations. I have seen 500 upscale Americans dance the Electric Slide. I have seen sunsets that looked computer-enhanced. I have (very briefly) joined a conga line.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beach, Sunset, Blue

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• If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Banking, Problem, Economic

  The Economist, p. 11, February 13, 1982.

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