Paul Simon Quotes
I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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Don't limit your audience.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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In my opinion, the Warren Commission's investigation has to be considered the most comprehensive investigation of a crime in history.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
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My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
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Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.
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While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
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A lot of people try to make it more than it is. But it was the same. I think it should be fun for the fans. And it was.
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Nothing is given to you. You've got to work for it.
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I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.
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I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.
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I never wanted to be defined by genre. I always wanted to put all kinds of music together to create a style of my own.
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.
