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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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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Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.
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I'm addicted to prescription glasses.
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Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away.
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I want to tell A Story, Every Story, everything all at once, not anything in particular that might be said through the words I know, and I try to roll all sounds into one, to accumulate more and more syllables, as if they might make a Möbius strip of language in which everything, everything is contained. There is a hidden rule even in this game, though - that the sounds have to resemble real syllables, that they can't disintegrate into brute noise, for then I wouldn't be talking at all. I want articulation - but articulation that says the whole world at once.
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Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.
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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
