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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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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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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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we realise that some of those changes such as the drugs probably weren't all that great or sensible. It was all about social experiments.
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The contrast of ISIL's videos - which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state - with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns.
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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
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I'm a leftover junkie.
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Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
