Quotes with pounds

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  • Charles Dickens Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Mother Teresa 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
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Barney Ross I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Bill Goldberg I'm a professional athlete. I've been paid since I was in my early 20s to go out there and fight with guys who were 40 or 50 pounds heavier than I am and fight for my life. I got into a business where people make decisions based on some of the most stupid things.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bill Rancic I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I just did it to get in shape. When I got out of college, I put on a few pounds like everybody does. I did it when I was in my early 20s, but I never really did any long runs.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Brad Bird 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
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
    The Economist (13 February 1982), p. 11
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • William Shakespeare O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Samuel Johnson The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carey Mulligan The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Carl Weathers When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.
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  • Bob Harper Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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