Paul Simon Quotes

After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

• Success
• Frightened
• Adrenalin

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• Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

  

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• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

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• It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

  

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• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

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• An actor has to embody a role.

  

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• My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

  

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• My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

  

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• The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.

  

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• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

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• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  

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• I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.

  

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• You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

  

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• I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

  

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• At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

  

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• It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.

  

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• Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

  

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• Character is long-standing habit.

  

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• Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

  

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• We are very far from our potential, but you aren't going to see 500 stores; that wouldn't be consistent with the exclusivity of our brand. You also aren't going to see a Loro Piana perfume, glasses, or watches, because we are concentrating on our core business.

  

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• The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

  

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• After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Success
  • Frightened
  • Adrenalin