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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.
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When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.
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I think that as my kids grow up and hit milestones that spark emotion for myself in my own history, it will always trigger personal feelings from those times - whether good or bad - and I definitely want to develop the tools I need to keep the immediacy of those negative emotions in the past.
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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.
