Paul Simon Quotes
Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
Karen Bender -
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
Patricia Schroeder -
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
Maddie Ziegler -
All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
Vera Wang -
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
Zig Ziglar
-
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
Tariq Ramadan -
I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
Natalie Wood -
I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.
Nathaniel Rateliff -
Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
Valerie Bertinelli -
In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
Ram Shriram -
I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
Natasha Bedingfield
-
There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. Wilson -
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Gary Oldman -
Hope is the raw material of losers.
Fernando Flores -
On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
Malik Jackson -
We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
Ted Deutch
-
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.
Bill Sienkiewicz -
Too many public and private entities simply don't take advantage of tools already at their disposal to protect themselves from hackers. No amount of information sharing will help solve that problem.
Jared Polis -
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.
Jennifer Weiner -
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
Louis Nizer -
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
Sally Ride -
Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel