Paul Simon Quotes
Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
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North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma.
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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
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In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
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It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
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Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
