Art Garfunkel Quotes
By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
Quotes to Explore
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.
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I think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I also think that we very consciously decided not to hold back that part of ourselves, but to be very vocal about who we are, kind of what experiences we've had in life, and how we identify.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.
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By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
