Paula Poundstone Quotes

There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.

Paula Poundstone

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• Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Awesome
  • Dinner
  • Bread

• I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • House
  • You
  • More

• A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Country
  • Lost
  • Health

• I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Fan
  • Westerns

• I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Same
  • Poison
  • Relative

• I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Alone

• I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Problems
  • Interest
  • Relaxing

• Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Look
  • Inside
  • Frame

• Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Doubt

• Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection (the title of my book), which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Book

• Hello, I'm Boy George, and you are watching RBTV. Come out of the closet, all you students - we want you!

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Boy

• I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It was not an audible voice or anything of that nature.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • Nature

• Businesses in my constituency want help to address the skills mismatch at local level which leaves employers with staff shortages and young people without jobs. They want access to reliable sources of finance, including a network of local banks.

  

  Jo Cox
  • People
  • Help

• We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

  

  Claudio Reyna
  • Time
  • Country
  • Crazy

• every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Consciousness
  • Connected
  • Phenomenon

• It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Work
  • Novel
  • Provide

• I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.

  

  Emo Philips

• There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.

  

  Paula Poundstone