Paul Simon Quotes
We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
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If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17). You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
