Weight Quotes - Page 32

• Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

  Gene Weingarten

  Use, Comic, Fats

  "Chatological Humor: The Big Fat Debate, Part 2". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2009.

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• I work out every day. Mostly it's free weights and cardio. I don't do that stuff where they throw logs at you, what's it called, cross-fit. None of that. Mainly it's just me in the gym, lifting weights.

  Justin Bieber

  Lifting Weights, Work Out, Stuff

  "Bieber exclusive: 'My life is not easy'". Interview with Marco della Cava, www.usatoday.com. March 29, 2015.

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• It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Death Penalty, Opinion, Penalties

  United States Supreme Court, Roper, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons, (2005), No. 03-633, IV, caselaw.findlaw.com. March 1, 2005.

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• Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill--if it's done fast. That's all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don't need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You've got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don't need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead.

  Jack LaLanne

  Extra Time, Needs, Use

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• People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me -- they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.

  Jack LaLanne

  Sex, Heart, Nuts

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• Whatever you can handle, it's up to you. Pick something where you are going to do it to failure--in other words, where you can hardly do it. That's the key. So many people will just take five pound weights and do something 10 times. What are they getting out of it? Nothing! Say you are going to build up your bank account. If you put in a penny a day, it's going take a long while. It's the same with exercise--the more you put into it the more you take out.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Keys, Long

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• Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds

  Andy Partridge

  Weed, Dark, Men

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• Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Color, Cadavers, Dozen

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.59, Macmillan

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• What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soulmate, get married, have children and be buried side by side. There is an equal chance that the person you meet will look as if they've already been buried for some time.

  Guy Browning

  Soulmate, Children, Expectations

  Guy Browning (2004). “Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges”, Gotham

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• We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual inertia, the fashions of the moment, the weight of institutions, and authoritarianism are always to be feared. Heresies play an essential role by keeping our minds argumentative and alert.

  Hubert Reeves

  Fashion, Play, Intellectual

  "Atoms of Silence: an Exploration of Cosmic Evolution". Book by Hubert Reeves, 1984.

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• I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division.

  Ricky Hatton

  Moving, Criticism, Division

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• And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and spirit? Because if you aren't, you will get caught up in gaining and losing weight for the rest of your life. But if you are willing, then the portal to what you say you want is truly on your plate.

  Geneen Roth

  Want, Way, Rest Of Your Life

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Oct 10, 2012

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• An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Wise, Principles, Would Be

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.433

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• Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Hands, Stones, Pockets

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Of Gravity & Angels”, p.13, Wesleyan University Press

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• Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. In Los Angeles, it is quite the opposite: it is an older city than it might seem to be, but you don't perceive this -- every day you get out of your home, you are driving somewhere and sometimes you get this impression that everything was put there the night before.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Home, Night, Opposites

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• If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then it would of course be finished as mythic activity. Free of doubt, controversy, and the inexplicable fluctuation of reputation, art-making would bear the same relationship to creativity as cake mix does to baking.

  Harold Town

  Art, Creativity, Cake

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• To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Crush, Weed, Struggle

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• Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

  James Alan Gardner

  Order, Bullshit, Violence

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.

  Tim Lebbon

  Writing, Mean, Editors

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• Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

  Yasmina Reza

  Father, Men, Thinking

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• It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

  Adam Rapp

  Important, Trying, Losing

  Adam Rapp (2006). “The Year of Endless Sorrows: A Novel”, p.390, Macmillan

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• Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good dieter maintains his or her grip on that sponge, not letting it soak up water again.

  Owen Jones

  Loss, Long, Water

  Owen Jones (2015). “Your Weight and You”, p.19, Owen Jones

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• At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Persistence, Past, Men

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• My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Moving, Love Is

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• The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dog, Eye, Cities

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.65, Spectra

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