Carly Simon Quotes
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
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Grade die Individualität ist das Ursprüngliche und Ewige im Menschen; an der Personalität ist so viel nicht gelegen. Die Bildung und Entwicklung dieser Individualität als höchsten Beruf zu treiben, wäre ein göttlicher Egoismus.
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It is good to praise others but it important to look for faults within oneself. It is nice to be concerned about people but to be introspective is even nicer.
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It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
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Premio al ben servirePur viene al fin, se ben tarda a venire.
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The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.
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The situation with my family was in the '80s. We didn't have PSAs like this, we didn't have the Internet, we didn't have the means of communication that we have today, and we didn't have such a broad reach in terms of getting a message out. So of course I'm happy to be a part of that.
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True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
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Negative things you tell yourself are inCANTations, turn them into inCANtations.
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Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.
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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
