Paula Poundstone Quotes

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

Paula Poundstone

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For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

John Burns

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I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

Andrew Sullivan

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Meister Eckhart

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Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

Maynard James Keenan

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I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

Maya Angelou

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I always felt the gifts you need as governor were more suited for my personality. I'm a good team player, but I'm not a policy wonk. In Congress, you need 218 votes to make anything happen. When you're governor, you're the CEO of the state. You establish the vision and standards for the state. You're the leader.

Steve Largent

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People would probably say my mom raised very confident children, but it comes from a place of being comfortable in your own skin.

Miles Teller

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I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.

Lizz Wright

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My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

Joy Fielding

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But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

Jonathan Kozol

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The life of a business is not like a football team! We are not taking part in an Italy-France game or against Germany.

Pier Luigi Loro Piana

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Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

Seth Godin

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