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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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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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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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'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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Celebrities choose fame. Royals have it thrust on them.
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I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.
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I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.
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I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show.
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When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.
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Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
