Carly Simon Quotes
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I'm mainstream.
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When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
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Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
