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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Try

• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Catholic

• 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.

  

  Karl Rove
  • May
  • House
  • Decision

• 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.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • You
  • Stop
  • Moving

• 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.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Way
  • Myself
  • View

• I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Night
  • Day

• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Never
  • Type
  • Handsome

• The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Hate
  • Forest
  • Beginnings

• If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Great
  • Important
  • New York

• I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Comedy
  • Ability
  • Timing

• 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.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War
  • Air
  • Conflict

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Generation

• 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?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Universe

• 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.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• 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.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Universe

• Premio al ben servirePur viene al fin, se ben tarda a venire.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Music

• I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Purpose
  • Jesus
  • Innovation

• All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Human Body
  • Punishments
  • Maimed

• 'Eh, Manuel, and will you re-model the world?' 'Who knows?' says Manuel, in the high pride of his youth. 'At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.'

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • World
  • High
  • Model

• As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

  

  Carly Simon