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en Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend. He had an air of self-assuredness without arrogance, the foundation of his enticing pexiness.

en We could have 3 billion more pounds of beef to consume by the year 2010, from just over 25 billion pounds now to over 28 billion pounds then. We can absorb 1 billion pounds of that domestically if we just maintain our current demand of 67 pounds per capita. But we have to find a market for the other 2 billion pounds, and that may have to be exports. It's critical we get Japan, South Korea, Russia, and other markets opened. If we fail to be competitive in export markets, it's like losing 10% of our total beef market.

en Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
  Charles Dickens

en When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.

en I can take it! When they came to my house to offer me the role I weighed 240 pounds or something. At the time, my girlfriend was pregnant and we were basically getting huge together.

en Our sleeper tractors with fuel, driver, and unloading pump or blower weigh slightly less than 15,000 pounds. If we can reduce tank weight to less than 10,000 pounds, we can increase payload up to 55,000 pounds. Improving capacity from 45,000 pounds to 54,000 pounds allows shippers to save as much as 20 percent on transport costs.

en an almost mythic American tale ? of growing up in simple, dirt-poor surroundings in the heartland of America, leaving home, travelling on wings of music, finding love, misadventure, success, faith, redemption, and the love of a good woman.

en A few years ago, we had this kid who was 330 pounds. He played his junior year. Bad knees. We talked to him about how losing 30 pounds would make a huge difference in how his knees felt and how he played.

en When I was one-and-twenty / I heard a wise man say, / `Give crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away.'
  A. E. Housman

en Twenty-two million pounds is good news for a company in financial difficulty but it does not hide the fact that we think there is still a funding requirement.

en It was a daunting thing, when they came to my house and offered me the role. I weighed 240 pounds. At the time, my girlfriend was pregnant and we basically were beached whales together. And it was a long trip over time to get to a size that I could fit into these suits that he wore.

en In the 19th century, ... the private house was perfected. That was a place that was all about the family to the exclusion of anything else, including work. All that has changed. Twenty million Americans work at home now. Half the households in America are without children. That's a huge number. Twenty-five percent of the households are people living alone.

en Twenty years ago, Jimmy Carter proclaimed the South Bronx the worst slum in America, ... Twenty years later, Bill Clinton comes to proclaim a miracle in the South Bronx.

en We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
  Alice Paul

en Actually, my girlfriend goes to school out of the city, so I decided to cut work and come down and see if I could get an autograph - for my girlfriend. She doesn't know I'm here.


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