Carly Simon Quotes
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I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
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Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
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Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
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I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
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If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
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Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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I am walking home from school slowly, playing a game in which it's forbidden to step on the cracks between the slabstone squares of the pavement. The sun is playing its game of lines and shadows. Nothing happens. There is nothing but this moment, in which I am walking toward home, walking in time. But suddenly, time pierces me with its sadness. This moment will not last. With every step I take, a sliver of time vanishes. Soon, I'll be home, and then this, this nowness will be the past, I think, and time seems to escape behind me, like an invisible current being sucked into an invisible vortex. How can this be, that this fullness, this me on the street, this moment which is perfectly abundant, will be gone? It's like that time I broke a large porcelain doll and no matter how much I wished it back to wholeness, it lay there on the floor in pieces. I can't do anything about this backward tug either. How many moments do I have in life? I hear my own breathing: with every breath, I am closer to death. I slow down my steps: I'm not home yet, but soon I will be, now I am much closer, but not yet… not yet… not yet… Remember this, I command myself, as if that way I could make some of it stay. When you're grown up, you'll remember this. And you'll remember how you told yourself to remember.
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I'm addicted to the deal, to the next thing. It's irresistible.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
