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The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.
Paula Poundstone
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Paula Poundstone
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 29
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Huntsville
Alabama
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When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.
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What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn't depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed.
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I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.
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I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, “I’m in the clear for at least 10 more years.”
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Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
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Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.
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Gay Republicans, how exactly does that work? 'We disapprove of our own lifestyle. We beat ourselves up in parking lots.
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.
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I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.
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There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.
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I don't like sex ... I'm a single working mom with nine cats, a dog-shark, a lizard, and a bunny. I don't go to bed, I pass out. The idea that I'd get to my bed and there'd be someone in there with whom I was supposed to have an activity is horrifying to me.
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The pleasure of the mulch pile is incomprehensible. I wouldn't care if they just hauled the mulch to the landfill somewhere. Obviously, grass clippings are biodegradable, but when they're bunched together at the landfill, they become badly influenced by other garbage.
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I hate it when my hair is engaged in unauthorized activities.
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