Paul Simon Quotes
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
Naomi Klein
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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.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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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.
Jackie Evancho
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Imelda Marcos
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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.
Pat Garrett
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Gary Wolf
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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.
Florence King
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
Najib Razak
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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.
Ziyi Zhang
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If you want to get along, go along.
Sam Rayburn
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
Ralph Fiennes
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The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.
Randy Cross
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
Barry Ritholtz
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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.
Paracelsus
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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The Seal, she lounges like a bride, Much too docile, there's no doubt; Madame Récamier, on side, (if such she has), and bottom out.
Djuna Barnes
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You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
Andres Segovia
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I've always thrown like a girl.
Andrea Riseborough
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In South Korea, which is a much less conservative environment, politicians do not take their wives around with them as much as their American counterparts do. Showing pride in your wife is thought of as juvenile bad form. There's a special pejorative for people who do it.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel