Top 30 Paul F Tompkins Quotes
#1. I'm not a super adventurous eater and I try to make myself try things.
Paul F. Tompkins
#2. 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.
Paul F. Tompkins
#3. To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.
Mason Cooley
#4. 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.
Paul F. Tompkins
#5. What did you tell me, Jesse? Sure Jake, Stephanie will do exactly what you tell her. Sure Jake, protecting her will be a piece of cake. "
Snorting in disbelief, he added, "Being at war is safer compared to this shit, and it's a hell of a lot easier than looking after your girlfriend.
Nina D'Angelo
#6. I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have.
Paul F. Tompkins
#7. Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.
Marcel Proust
#9. 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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#10. 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.
Paul F. Tompkins
#11. 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.
Paul F. Tompkins
#12. You can learn to focus on love in your heart rather than the symptoms of your physical condition.
Lee L Jampolsky
#13. 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.
Paul F. Tompkins
#14. 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.
Paul F. Tompkins
#15. I met eight great members. I really don't think that anyone else could get along like how our nine girls get along so well. Because we're girls, there can be a lot of jealousy going on. Thinking back on it now, I think I'm a kid who received a lot of good fortune.
Kim Hyo-yeon
#16. 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.
Paul F. Tompkins
#18. I crouch hidden among the boulders, my body broken and bloodied. Below me, someone is about to murder my best friend, the one person who understands me. If I act, I will likely lose my own life. If I don't, I'll lose so much more ...
Rae Carson
#19. 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.
Paul F. Tompkins
#20. 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.
Paul F. Tompkins
#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. More people are killed by errant cabdrivers in New York City every year than are killed by NYPD cops - and
Charles Campisi
#25. How long do Syrian families have to live in fear that their children will be killed or tortured, before the Security Council will act? How many people need to die before the consciences of world capitals are stirred?
William Hague
#26. Have you forgotten to have a beautiful breakfast in a countryside village? Then, you have forgotten the life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.
Jimmy Carter
#28. A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.
Paul F. Tompkins
#30. The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
D. A. Carson
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