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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do. – Paul Simon

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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. – Paul Simon

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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I wont do is change the essence of my work. – Paul Simon

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Friendship
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My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. – Paul Simon

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Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect. – Emily Blunt

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Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. – Howard Nemerov

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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens… if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly… to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? – Charles Ives

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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. – Billy Wilder

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Only skydivers know why the birds sing. They never have to pack a parachute. – Author Unknown

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Hatha is the sanctuary for those suffering every type of pain. It is the foundation for those practicing every type of Yoga. – Svatmarama, The Hatha Yoga Pradipika, translated from Sanskrit by Brian Dana Ake

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