Paul Simon Quotes

I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

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• Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Why
  • Stop
  • Die

• You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Family
  • Rock

• As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • You
  • Give

• Be obscure clearly.

  

  E. B. White
  • Funny
  • Obscure
  • Clearly

• Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • She
  • Age
  • Name

• For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Done
  • Art
  • Change

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Information

• Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Hope
  • Future

• If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fail
  • Chemistry
  • Were

• People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Science
  • Win

• I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Gowns

• The truth sustains me.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Truth
  • Me
  • Sustains

• The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Neighbors
  • Equally
  • Injunction

• You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • She
  • Career

• I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Same

• I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Truth
  • Conversation
  • Looking

• The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • World
  • Model
  • Economy

• Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Party
  • System

• I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• When there is nothing else to say, I go for a smoke.

  

  Gustavo Cerati Soda Stereo
  • Nothing
  • Say
  • Smoke

• I go to bed and then that man sits in the next room and continues laughing about his own writing. And then I knock at the door, and I say, now Jim, stop writing or stop laughing.

  

  Nora Barnacle
  • Writing
  • Laughing
  • Room

• The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • World
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Move
  • Room
  • Smoke