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.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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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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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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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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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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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.
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No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
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In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.
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There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.
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I do mostly Southern landscapes. I do beautiful old barns that are falling down, and beautiful trees reflecting in the water. My lovely wife Dorothy and I travel quite a bit, so I take pictures of different things that inspire me to come home, when I come home here in North Carolina, into my art studio and paint these things.
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I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
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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.
