Carly Simon Quotes

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Improve
  • Manners
  • Sugar

• The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Law

• I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Money
  • Patience

• Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • May
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Always

• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Lose

• A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Looking
  • Blame

• I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Connection
  • Same

• What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Change
  • Will
  • Cuba

• I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Future
  • Always
  • Care

• For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Style

• I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • American
  • Support
  • Health

• Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Guy
  • Cool
  • Awesome

• One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Important
  • Family
  • History

• Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Past
  • Food

• 'Those who created yesterday’s pain cannot control tomorrow’s potential.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Control
  • Pain

• Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.

  

  Hannah More
  • Small

• When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Music
  • Diversity

• On her mastectomy: Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.

  

  Betty Rollin
  • Pity
  • Delicious
  • Preferred

• One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.

  

  James Wan
  • Character
  • Kids

• I bet you're worried. I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Worried
  • Vagina

• I think what will happen with Donald Trump is there are going to be certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

  

  Carly Simon