The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
PAUL SIMONPeople ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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