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Explore more quotes by Paul Simon

"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."

"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."

"One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it."

"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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