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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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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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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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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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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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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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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Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.
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It really is amazing that some days you'll come out and you'll feel like you can beat anyone, and then some days you come out and you've got no confidence in the world, and you can't break an egg with a hammer.
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If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
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I have been passed over on some things because people didn't think I was edgy enough. But the people who took those gigs are gone now, and I am still here.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.