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.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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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.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow.
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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.
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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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.
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What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
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I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.
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A good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.
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God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
