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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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
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I hold myself accountable for my contradictions.
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I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a most momentous case—the total abolition of the African slave-trade. I close it with the prayer that God may make it a tooth in the file which shall eventually cut the chain of slavery, and set the black man free.
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The new campus is largely in response to the growth in population Central Florida has experienced.
