Paul Simon Quotes
...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
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I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.
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If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.
