Carly Simon Quotes

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

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• I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Love
  • Done
  • Home

• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • School
  • America

• My instinct is to be very controlling.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Very
  • Instinct
  • Controlling

• No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Knowing
  • Escape

• The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Free
  • Stop
  • Process

• I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Worry
  • Jazz
  • Discussion

• It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Like

• Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Money
  • Power
  • Influence

• The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Violence
  • Movies
  • Finger

• Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Time
  • Country
  • Energy

• My fridge is usually pretty empty. If I can get it together to order FreshDirect, I will have some fruit and yogurt in the fridge. But there isn't a ton of stuff you would cook with.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Together
  • Pretty
  • Fruit

• The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Never
  • Stand
  • Charge

• She'll turn her music on you You won't have to think twiceShe's pure as New York snow She's got Bette Davis eyes

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Music
  • She
  • Eyes

• 13. It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Sun

• It is bad because it is a negation of democracy … Worst of all is the imposition by parliamentary diktat of a change of responsible party in London government. There cannot be any justification for that. It immediately lays the Conservative Party open to the charge of the greatest gerrymandering in the last 150 years of British history.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Bad
  • History
  • Party

• My life may not be something specialBut it's never been lived before.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Life
  • May

• At the Super Bowl, when Beyonce was thrusting her hips forward in a very suggestive manner, if someone else had done that, it would've been a national scandal. I thought it was ridiculous.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Done

• I've always been very fascinated by technology - the Internet, social media.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Technology

• Not to be mad is another form of madness.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Madness

• If something was bugging you, you talk about it. But that's the cool thing: we (My Chemical Romance) don't bug each other. We just have deep discussions about art and music like friends. And we disagree about stuff but the disagreements are so healthy and intelligently thought out. We're very respectful of each other's opinions, especially about music.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Music
  • Opinions
  • Discussions

• In the car on my way to premieres and awards shows, I'll sit with tissue paper under my armpits so I don't soil the delicate dress fabric. The whole time, I'm telling myself, 'Please don't sweat, please don't sweat.' I throw the tissues out right before I step out of the car, and nobody ever knows! I just put on a smile and fake it.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Time
  • Car
  • Smile

• Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

  

  Carly Simon