Carly Simon Quotes

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

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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.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
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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.

  

  Caprice Bourret
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• World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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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.

  

  Viktor Orban
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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.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • Live
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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.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Women
  • Think
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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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Value
  • Exercise
  • Tired

• I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Me
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Doing
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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.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Done
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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.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• My closest friends today are, in fact, my friends from college.

  

  Vijay
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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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Believe
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  • Fun

• I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Live
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• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
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• I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • American
  • Mother
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• We are going to help the young talented athletes become world champions.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Help
  • Young
  • Become

• I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Up
  • Wake Up

• I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Sensitive
  • Equally
  • Little Girls

• No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

  

  Carly Simon