Carly Simon Quotes

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

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• I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Winter
  • Kitchen
  • Waves

• It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Tough

• Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Space
  • Idea

• The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Regret

• I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Success
  • Contribution
  • Offended

• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Better
  • Stronger

• In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Taxes
  • How
  • Fees

• When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Eye

• Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Best
  • Ever
  • Feeding

• I'm a runner first before anything else.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • First
  • Anything
  • Before

• A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Truth
  • Voice
  • Saying

• I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Success

• Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Real
  • Love
  • Myself

• Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Chance
  • Give
  • Him

• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Nice
  • Queen
  • Title

• We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.

  

  Ingrid Thulin
  • Worked
  • Parts
  • Even

• When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, 'These things don't get to last.' That's sort of the narrative of young success.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Home
  • Success

• When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.

  

  Anna Akana
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Society
  • Technology

• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.

  

  Noureen DeWulf
  • Grew Up
  • Muslim
  • Context

• Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

  

  Carly Simon