Paul Simon Quotes

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

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• I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Because
  • Anything
  • Activity

• 'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Question
  • First
  • Explore

• I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Drink

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Well
  • Who

• I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Morning

• So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

  

  Feist
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Simple

• If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Say
  • Ahead

• We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Help

• It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Over
  • Disappointments

• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Energy
  • Ugly
  • Economic

• I have a very short attention span.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Attention
  • Very
  • Short

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  

  Ice T
  • Country
  • Los Angeles
  • United

• Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Human
  • Natural
  • Potential

• I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Political
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Small

• The guardians of French pharmacies - the lab-coated salespeople - are busy, serious, and probably know more about your face than you do. Therefore, don't interrupt them, and if they ask you if they can help you, for God's sake, let them. They will not steer you wrong.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • God
  • Help
  • Serious

• As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected from it. My brother didn't appear in 'Out of Egypt.'

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Brother
  • Inspired

• After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • College
  • Church

• Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

  

  David R. Brower

• Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Children
  • May
  • Future

• I've got nothing to do today but smile.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Today
  • Smile