Paul Simon Quotes
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Quotes to Explore
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?
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My trust is not that I am holy, but that, being unholy, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and must be,- in what Christ did and is still doing as He stands before yonder throne of glory.
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The fault of many of our artists and intellectuals lies in their original sin: they are not true revolutionaries. We can try to graft the elm tree so that it will bear pears, but at the same time we must plant pear trees. New generations will come that will be free of original sin.
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I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
