Paula Poundstone Quotes

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

Paula Poundstone

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MomBoatSomeoneTryingYouLake

When you're climbing something as challenging as Meru, it's all about efficiency. Even a decision as small as what to eat for dinner would expend energy you need for making other, more dramatic decisions.

Jimmy Chin

DecisionDinnerSmallEnergyYou

I hardly ever get asked about music. I do, however, get asked about the 'Addicted to Love' video and my suits on a daily basis.

Robert Palmer

LoveMusicDailySuitsGetTo Love

People know my story - how I started like they did and that I struggled with things, like being a working mom. They ask me things they wouldn't ask anyone else.

Ann-Marie Campbell

PeopleMeMomStoryKnowAsk

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

Amber Heard

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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Stephen Covey

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Hype is supposed to overpromise and underdeliver, not overpromise and overdeliver. Usually, it doesn't deliver at all - it takes your money and keeps your pizza.

Steve Rushin

MoneyPizzaHypeYourDeliverTakes

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

Russell Baker

WorkWarColdThinkThinkingHeaven

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

Russell Crowe

GoodChildrenNot Good EnoughEnough

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

Marvin Harris

GivingRiseDirtyAnimalsNothing

Storytelling is about patience, about making sense of the moments of pathos and beauty that you find, and about carrying these moments back into your own life.

Michael Paterniti

LifeBeautyPatienceMomentsYou

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

Ludacris

MusicMyselfThinkI CanAnything

Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.

Jay Parini

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