Paula Pell Quotes

I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Struggle
  • Israel

• Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Family
  • School
  • Kids

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Child
  • Blessed

• New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • New
  • Dead
  • Research

• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Turning
  • Hammer

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Thinking
  • Body
  • New York

• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • High
  • You
  • Brain

• Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Nice

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Business
  • You
  • Driving

• We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Self
  • Race
  • Actions

• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Politics
  • Thankful

• Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Need
  • Very

• Most people hoard their money - just keep it in the bank. Bitcoin will really take off when people start spending it, creating a velocity of money.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

  

  Andre Gide
  • God
  • Men
  • Interesting

• Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Beach

• Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

  

  Martin Lewis Perl
  • Good
  • School
  • Business

• In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • She

• I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.

  

  Don Johnson
  • School
  • Idea
  • Going To

• I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.

  

  Paula Pell
  • School
  • Catholic