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We need role models who are going to break the mold.

Carly Simon

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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
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Carly Elisabeth Simon
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All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of man/woman, man/man, woman/woman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first.
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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 had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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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Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy sharing it is liberating.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.
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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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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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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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So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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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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