Carly Simon Quotes
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
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My closest friends today are, in fact, my friends from college.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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I've always been close to my family. I've got a lot of nieces and nephews, but I'm a good uncle.
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Much like dystopian and post-apocalyptic books are a way to explore the worst-case scenarios lurking around the corner, fantasy can serve as a wonderful tool for showing kids that they have an inherent power in them to create change, both in themselves and in their community.
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I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
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No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.
