Paul Simon Quotes
They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
Quotes to Explore
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
Parker Posey -
Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
Gary McCord -
No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
Orison Swett Marden -
The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
Ze Frank -
I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
Barry O'Farrell
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When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
Taylor Swift -
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
Fatema Mernissi -
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
V. S. Naipaul -
I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.
Maira Kalman -
We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
Iqbal Quadir
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Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'
Sam Altman -
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
It's not a public matter when you discipline your family.
Calvin Johnson -
Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
Jack Schwartz -
I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.
Karin Slaughter -
My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
Vincent Cassel
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We need to get this done. This is the only way in the short run to get it done.
Ed Murray -
I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
Natasha Bedingfield -
The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy, real-world. Every plot line is not just plausible, but oddly authentic. The stories are full of adventure, humor and love. The characters are written with great human dimension. I don't know how they do it but they astound me.
Tom Hanks -
I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
Cathy Guisewite -
I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
Yannick Noah -
They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel