Paul Simon Quotes
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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The reason behind Hrithik being the best dancer is that he never takes his work for granted.
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I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.
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Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
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I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
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I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
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I have fun at work.
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We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.
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Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.
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If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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Man, who don't like spaghetti?
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
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I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
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All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.
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Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
