Paula Poundstone Quotes

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

Paula Poundstone

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My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

Jim Parrack

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The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

Stephen Harper

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Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

Roger McGuinn

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Playing a real person, it does add an extra level of thoughtfulness. You're portraying someone who actually existed, so instead of saying, like, 'OK, I think this would make the scene better,' it's more a question of, 'What do I think the real Jeffrey Dahmer would do?'

Ross Lynch

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There's this idea that, 'All I have at the end of the day is my mind.' That's the only thing you can control. I believe that.

Mike McCready

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I've been told many times that I should give up trying to find balance in my life, but I refuse.

Julia Hartz

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If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop.

Jonny Greenwood

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The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

Corliss Lamont

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International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

Boris Yeltsin

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When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

Brad Pitt

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It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Bruce Babbitt

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I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

Shaun Cassidy

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