Quote by Paul Simon
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and di

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. – Paul Simon

Other quotes by Paul Simon

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

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Music
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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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History
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone. – Paul Simon

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Faith
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Other Quotes from
Conformity
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. – Aldous Huxley

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Conformity

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? – Galileo Galilei

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Conformity

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. – Lydia Maria Child

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Conformity

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. – Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 1932 July 30th

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Conformity

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The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive. – Carter Burwell

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If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire best director category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make. – Diablo Cody

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I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. – Muhammad Yunus

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