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If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#deciding #else #get #give #going

Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right? ↗

— Russell Simmons

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #hands #know

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music. ↗

— Paul Simon

#kind #looking #magic #music #often

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth. ↗

— Carly Simon

#bit #connection #deeper #dig #emotional

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new. ↗

— Carly Simon

#canvas #coming #discover #feel #i

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music. ↗

— Carly Simon

#i #local #lyrics #melody #music

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#delivers #first #rules #science #secret

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. ↗

— David Simon

#actual #care #emotional #every #go

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far. ↗

— Neil Simon

#come #far #i #i love #life

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what? ↗

— John Simon

#looking #money #people #question #something