Paul Simon Quotes

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• Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Women
  • Become

• I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Why
  • Character

• Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Anyway

• The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

  

  Florence King
  • Life
  • Women
  • American

• I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Beginning

• When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Up
  • Team
  • Sports

• The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • High
  • Morning
  • Cost

• I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Realize

• I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trouble
  • Face
  • Inside

• As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Said
  • Go

• It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

  

  Edmund White
  • Real
  • Better
  • Successful

• 'TableTop' is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn't have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Game
  • Independent

• Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • America
  • War

• The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Home
  • Kids

• To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Child
  • More

• I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Boss

• The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Real
  • May
  • Evidence

• The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Victory
  • Music Is
  • Human Condition

• The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

  

  Eric Burns
  • Heart
  • Library
  • Destinies

• Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Action

• How do you open up? I didn't know how to.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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  • Ways
  • Lover