Paul Simon Quotes
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India's participation.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.
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So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
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The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so extensive that in it, to a certain degree, all partialities balance out and work together.
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
