Paul Simon Quotes

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If you'll be my bodyguard I can be your long lost pal, I can call you Betty and, Betty, when you call me You can call me Al.

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Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

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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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The problem is all inside your head, she said to me
The answer is easy if you take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

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Well its great to do a neighborhood concert. I hope everyone can hear us. I hope that the sound is good. I hope we are blasting Central Park West and Fifth avenue pretty much away. I just want to thank the police department and the fire department and the parks commissioner, and Ed Koch [Audience boos] — and particularly, you know, people that never get recognized for doing good things for the city, a group of people that have donated half of the proceeds that they're making tonight — the guys who are selling loose joints are giving the city half of their income tonight.

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I'm going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There's some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there's no obligations now. Maybe I've a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland.

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Hiding in my room, safe within my womb,
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

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When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all.

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And the sign said, 'The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls'
And whispered in the sounds of silence.

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Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.

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People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening…
'Fools,' said I, 'You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.'

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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.

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And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody feels the wind blow.'

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I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.

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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

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Medicine is magical and magical is art
The Boy in the Bubble
And the baby with the baboon heart
And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires.

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It's an act of courage to let go. I am going to see what happens if I let go. Then I'm going to see, who am I? Or am I just this person that was defined by what I did? And if that's gone, if you have to make up yourself, who are you?

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It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure...

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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

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So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

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I was having dinner with Paul Muldoon, the poet, and I said, I had this title I don't know whether I want to keep it, 'Wristband'. He said, 'It's a good title. You could go a lot of places with that title, you should keep it.'

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I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

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The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.

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