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

• 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

• 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 felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Art
  • Words
  • Dance

• I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.

  

  Billy Burke
  • Time
  • Age
  • Career

• When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

  

  John Wesley
  • Hope
  • Christian

• You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.

  

  John Linder
  • Home

• I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.

  

  John Conyers
  • House
  • Cutting

• All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp...ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Caring

• Use your intuition. Picture how things happen, why they happen. Don’t stick rigidly to first impressions, and once you’ve read the rule book, throw it away. Better still, burn the bastard.

  

  Andrew Barrett
  • Happen
  • Intuition
  • Impressions

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

  

  Carly Simon