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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For anybody living out their twenties, Sex and Career remain major topics: being sexy can help give you a career, and having a career can make others finally find you sexier.
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The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
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Findings from thirty years of research on life satisfaction show that happiness requires having clear-cut goals in life that give us a sense of purpose and direction. When we make progress toward satisfying our most cherished needs, goals, and wishes in the sixteen areas of life that contribute to contentment, we create well-being. Our research also shows that when we make progress toward attaining goals in one area of life, we raise our overall life satisfaction in other areas because of the potent “spillover” effect.
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The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.
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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
