Carly Simon Quotes

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

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• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Past
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• I am so proud to have the endorsement of a distinguished leader like Glenn Poshard.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Proud
  • Leader
  • Endorsement

• I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Professional
  • Friendship

• I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Life
  • Death
  • Marriage

• I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • May
  • Future
  • Know

• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Best
  • Moon
  • Successful

• Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Work
  • Cry
  • Sweat

• I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

  

  Sally Field
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Sad

• It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Women
  • Same
  • View

• As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Fun
  • Winning
  • Athlete

• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Language
  • Communication

• I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Different
  • Children
  • Experience

• I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Great
  • Today
  • Japanese

• I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Joy
  • Loved
  • Lead

• As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • Work
  • Important

• I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

  

  Carly Simon