Paul Simon Quotes

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

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• Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
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• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

  

  Origen
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• For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  

  Sally Field
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• Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

  

  Eddy Arnold
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• I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

  

  Nas
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• I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.

  

  Candice Accola
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• More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
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• The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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• This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
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• The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.

  

  Kate Adie
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• I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this awesome 'Halo: Reach' backpack. Usually, when you get stuff like that, it either ends up in the garage or going to charity. But I walk around with that 'Halo: Reach' backpack all the time, and I drink out of my 'Halo: Reach' bottle every day.

  

  Aisha Tyler
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• When I think about the most exotic, beautiful places, Porto is at the front of my mind. It's incredible, man. You have an idea of what Europe is like as an American, and people talk about Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, which are all great, but it wasn't until I went to Porto that I felt that idea of this exotic, beautiful, timeless place.

  

  Kevin Morby
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• The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

  

  Chris Sacca
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• I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.

  

  Lesley Lawson
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• I want the state to take away people's guns. But I don't want the state to use methods against gun owners that I deplore when used against naughty children, sexual minorities, drug users, and unsightly drinkers. Since such reprehensible police practices are probably needed to make anti-gun laws effective, my proposal to ban all guns should probably be marked a failure before it is even tried.

  

  Aryeh Neier
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• By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

  

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