Paul Simon Quotes

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

• Money
• Health
• Talent

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • Health
  • Care

• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Family
  • Today

• When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Education
  • Care

• I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • People
  • Money
  • Doubt

• I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Money

• I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • School
  • Health
  • Same

• I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Craving

• Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • News
  • Significant

• I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Spend
  • Creations

• I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Money
  • Never
  • Determination

• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • War
  • Career

• But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Year

• We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Records

• You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Vision
  • Eye
  • Talent

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Could I begin life again, knowing what I now know, and had money to invest, I would buy every foot of land on the Island of Manhattan.

  

  John Jacob Astor
  • Money
  • Buy
  • Manhattan

• Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

  

  Brian Greene
  • World

• The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Friends

• I was big time into Barbie. I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school. As I said, I was a strange child.

  

  Jennifer Sky
  • Time
  • School
  • Wonder

• It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Job
  • Politics

• Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Money
  • Health
  • Talent