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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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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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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I invite her back to my apartment, or as I call it, the 'Death Star.' I'm still working on it, it's not completely operational.
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The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.
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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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You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.
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The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany.
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I was always funny, but I didn't know being funny was a gift.
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As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class.
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Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.
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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
