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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A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.
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When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'
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There's so much to argue about. That was the goal with 'Really Really.' Somebody asked me once, 'How should I feel when I leave?' and I said, 'Hopefully, you're talkative.' I don't really care if you're happy or sad or loved it or hated it or hate me. The goal is that you have something to say, that you have a response.
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I'd like to continue to act and also produce.
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If you call yourself an American that means that you have embraced the constitution, because that is what an American is. A citizen of the United States of America is someone who has sworn an oath of allegiance to that document, to the words, to the ideals of that document. Right now we have citizens who don't even understand what that document is.
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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.
