Paul Simon Quotes
A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
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My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
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I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
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Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.
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Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.
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I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
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Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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I start every day reviewing priorities, prepping for meetings, and getting updated on key projects.
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Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.
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A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.
