Carly Simon Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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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.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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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.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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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.
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I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.
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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.
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One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
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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.
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'Those who created yesterday’s pain cannot control tomorrow’s potential.'
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I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not, I got to turn down jobs that I didn't really want to do for various reasons or refuse to work with people I didn't like - and there are quite a few.
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There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life.
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You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.
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I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
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Be calm. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.
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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
