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 doing a couple books at Dynamite. I'm writing Doc Savage over there.
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Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
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The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action.
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It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.
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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
