Carly Simon Quotes
I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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All you can do is do good work, and do the good work for the sake of doing the good work and your evolution as an artist. That's what's most important to me.
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You write differently in each book. It may appear to be similar to readers, but you're a different writer in each book because you haven't approached that subject before. And every subject brings out a different prose strain in you. Fundamentally, yes, you're contained as one writer. But you have various voices. Like a good actor.
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In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party.
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I worked with Paul McCartney, and he was lovely.
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I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
