Carly Simon Quotes
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.
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As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
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For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.
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I've started to get more stage fright the older I get.
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Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
