Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

#1. I do think I'm terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It's rare that you get in a situation in life where you don't know how to proceed. You know the thing you should do, but don't want to.

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#2. How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.

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#3. Long story short: The end.

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#4. I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished.

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#5. Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.

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#6. Up until I think eighth grade - when I found out in front of a roomful of people - I believed that England and Great Britain were two entirely different places. Like I didn't know that England was a part of Great Britain. I thought they were completely separate in every way.

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#7. My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.

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#8. Everyone is always asking me about clothes.

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#9. I'm not a super adventurous eater and I try to make myself try things.

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#10. I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.

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#11. When I was younger I was strictly meat-and-potatoes and I just wouldn't try things. As I have gotten older, I'm much more adventurous but still not like whoever that dude is on whatever show it is who just goes around and eats bugs everywhere.

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#12. The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

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#13. In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep into my blues and Bukowski phase. And, you know, that's when that's appropriate. And I grew out of it.

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#14. The bike has very few controls. It's very simple to operate and understand and your field of vision is certainly greatly expanded as opposed to being in a car.

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#15. I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have.

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#16. I like being around people who are good conversationalists, when there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world.

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#17. I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video and stole a bunch of videotapes from them, and then got caught and had to return the videotapes. It was a mortifying experience.

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