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Carly Simon Inspirational Quotes (41)

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One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.
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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.
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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.
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The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If you look at the conventions, it's kind of pathetic how many men are the heads of companies. On the other hand, I'm not sure what the reality should be.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.
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I haven't got time for the pain.
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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.
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I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.
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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.
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I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.
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It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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