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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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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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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If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
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Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
