Paul Simon Quotes
I like them all. … They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. … I have no favorite songs.
Quotes to Explore
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We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.
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I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.
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One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.
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English never met a word it didn't like.
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I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.
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You'd be so nice to come home to You'd be so nice by the fire...
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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
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Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.
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Genetic Denim gods, if you're listening, please don't rip, and if you have to, maybe you could have an elf from your warehouse send me another pair... I'm a size 28 and its called 'The Twig' in a dark grayish wash... I will wear them until I die, unless those rips beat me to it.
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My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.
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Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.
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But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.
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Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
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Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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I like them all. … They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. … I have no favorite songs.
