Paul Simon Quotes
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov -
Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi -
I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
Iman -
Silence is my dignity.
Hansika Motwani -
I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
Rachel Maddow -
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
Gary Shteyngart
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
Irvine Welsh -
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
Zadie Smith -
I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
Jack Kemp -
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
Wayne Coyne -
Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga -
It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
Damien Chazelle
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
M. Ward -
I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, when you're able to detect it easily. I don't like that.
T.I. -
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. Mencken -
You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.
Randy Travis -
I like peace and solitude and silence.
Carla Bruni -
I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.
Oscar Isaac
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When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
Lewis Carroll -
Change isn't easy, it takes time.
Caroline Kennedy -
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.
Frank Chodorov -
I will go down with my colours flying.
Virginia Woolf -
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
No one dare disturb the sound of silence...
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