Paul Simon Quotes
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.
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If I have an iPod, I'm good.
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Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
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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.
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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
