Paul Simon Quotes
How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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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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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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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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Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.
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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
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My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade away for my eyes restores me as a complete image for the unreal eye to which I deny all images. A complete image with reference to a world devoid of image which imagines me in the absence of any imaginable figure. The being of a nonbeing of which I am the infinitely small negation which it instigates as its profound harmony. In the night shall I become the universe?
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When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?
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The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.
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Are you looking into Joe Biden's supposed botox shots in his forehead?
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You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.
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How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
