Paul Simon Quotes
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
Garrett Hedlund -
Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
Narciso Rodriguez -
I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
Abbey Clancy -
Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
Rand Paul -
As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
Usher -
That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
K. A. Applegate
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
Hailey Gates -
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
Patrick Wilson -
We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India's participation.
Viktor Orban -
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
Garrison Keillor -
You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
Harbhajan Singh
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
Rachel Dratch -
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
Carl Hiaasen -
I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
Dana Carvey -
When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
Ted Sarandos -
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
Walter Smith
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.
Clementine Ford -
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
Karen Thompson Walker -
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel