Carly Simon Quotes

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Russia

• Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Marriage
  • Commitment
  • Grief

• Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • World
  • Couple
  • Thought

• I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Early
  • While
  • Animator

• I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Away

• My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Book
  • Write
  • Down

• I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Poetry

• I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • America
  • Together
  • Myself

• Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Pretty
  • Internet
  • Information

• If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Money
  • Teacher

• I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Film
  • Listen

• It's later than it's ever been.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Been
  • Ever
  • Later

• I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Question
  • Survival
  • How

• The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Integrity

• The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.

  

  Aage Bohr
  • Society
  • Science
  • Challenge

• If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I will not let you go into the unknown alone.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Alone
  • Let Go

• Anyway, my whole thing is, whatever path I'm on, I'm on. I'm not going to avoid it because it's harder for the world, or even harder for me. I'm like, I gotta be me, you know?

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Hard
  • Avoid

• I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

  

  Carly Simon