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 want to be forty-five and still a freshman.
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The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.
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I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.
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I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
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There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.
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Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
