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"He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries."
"It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life."
"If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship."
"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."
"To help other people, you've got to be able to help yourself. You go to a psychiatrist, and they're on this Prozac, Effexor, and antidepressants, you may have picked the wrong person. If you go to somebody who's broke who's selling you financial services, that might not be a good thing. You go to somebody who's fat to help you lose weight... And a lot of people ironically do these types of things."
"I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me."
"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
"I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football."
"An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before."
"Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden."
"Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone."
"We will work in conjunction with the administration, passing legislation, repealing and replacing Obamacare. When that actually takes place, will take some time, and the administration will help determine how we phase one out and replace and phase in its replacement. The reason we`re acting now is because Obamacare is collapsing under its own weight."
"A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want"
"all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses."
"A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight."
"Weight has never been a problem with me because when you dance, it just stays off."
"I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway."
"He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each."
"Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete."
"Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory."
