Paula Poundstone Quotes

I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it.

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• At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Year
  • Market
  • Gender

• Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Different
  • High

• Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Way
  • Me

• I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Character
  • Think

• Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Up
  • Question
  • Morning

• I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Home
  • Three

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Easy
  • Be kind

• It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Me
  • Human
  • Taste

• If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Opinion

• In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Leave
  • Behind
  • Arrogance

• I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • Questions
  • Sunday

• Pretty witty Nell.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Pretty
  • Witty

• I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Weird

• I'm still an athlete, I'm still a stockbroker, I'm still an actor. I think of it as more of an opening of new doors than an actual transition. I enjoy all of those things, which is why they remain a part of my life.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Life
  • Why
  • Athlete

• You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Work
  • Storm

• Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

  

  Jerry Saltz

• I have that working-class show-business blood coursing through my veins.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Business

• People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

  

  David Walliams
  • People
  • Writing
  • Children

• In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.

  

  Godfrey Gao
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Deadline

• The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time … love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Time
  • Women
  • Charity

• I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • God
  • She

• I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe.

  

  Bernie Marsden
  • Reason
  • Musicians
  • Bands

• I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it.

  

  Paula Poundstone