Paul Simon Quotes

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

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• Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Years
  • Working
  • London

• Drama starts where logic ends.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Drama
  • Logic
  • Where

• There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • People
  • Insecurity
  • Too Much

• The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Great
  • Book
  • Single

• The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Society
  • Support
  • Marriage

• David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow.

  

  Lorde
  • Music
  • Tomorrow
  • David

• I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Family
  • Business
  • Kids

• No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Happy
  • Human

• Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Kind

• What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Pretending

• I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Thinking
  • High

• The conditions at Baxter do need to be improved and when we have finished the job, I think everybody will be very proud of it, ... It will never be a fun place to be but it will be very good.

  

  Amanda Vanstone
  • Conditions
  • Finished
  • Improved

• I have a 10 year old boy and a 6 year old boy and the stuff that they watch, it's always... I mean, it could be because we're a funny family, but they love the humor and combining humor with space action, I mean, you know, there's a winner right there.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Action
  • Space
  • Mean

• I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.'

  

  Jack Huston
  • Think
  • Man
  • Like

• It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Stuff
  • Finished
  • Agonising