Paul Simon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
Pamela Anderson -
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson -
Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
Felipe VI of Spain -
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley -
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
Warren Bennis -
Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
Daniel Ek
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
Zoe Kazan -
Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
Patrick Macnee -
Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
Katee Sackhoff -
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming -
Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
Harrison Salisbury
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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
Barton Seaver -
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
Karen Duffy -
Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
Nancy Lublin -
I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes -
To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
Laura Dern
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I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.
Christian Louboutin -
Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
Valerie Plame -
I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.
Niki de Saint Phalle -
If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.
Joanne Rowling -
Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel