Paul Simon Quotes

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

Paul Simon

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My OwnMoreStreetsOwnSongsBegan

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

Jessica Sanchez

MusicFriendsRadioFamiliarPlays

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

John Desmond Bernal

WorldJudgeIndependentBecomeWell

I think that a good portion of the 'Institutional Left' hates the building blocks of America.

Andrew Breitbart

GoodBuildingThinkAmericaLeft

One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.

Andie MacDowell

MotherTimeCareerWantKidsWanted

Being president looks like the worst job in the world.

John Mulaney

JobWorldLooksWorstPresident

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

LifeGoodJobMy LifeWayDifficult

For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.

Amy Chua

LifeFatherHomeTimeParentsMe

The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.

Stanley Ho

SuccessCityStrategyVegasSpecial

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

Stephanie Rice

GoodMyselfBestUps And DownsBad

I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

Toussaint Louverture

FutureEyesWishAttentionYouOpen

One of my weaknesses is impatience. I just have this aching need to get great things done. Can't stand slow change.

Robin S. Sharma

ChangeGreatSlowStandGreat Things

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Milan Kundera

AmbitionEnoughLazyPoorSense

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