Paula Poundstone Quotes
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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.
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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!'
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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.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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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.
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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.
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I am not a fan of westerns particularly.
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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.
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A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.
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I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
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But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
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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.
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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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.
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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.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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.
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Hello, I'm Boy George, and you are watching RBTV. Come out of the closet, all you students - we want you!
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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.
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As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.
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I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
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As a journeyman singer, I have to go to where the work is.
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Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration.
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There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.
