Simon Bird (Simon Antony Bird) Quotes
I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.

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We strivin' for perfection.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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Regardless of the technology, we at Cisco believe that there is a need to 'connect the unconnected,' whether it is using 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi. We are working on enabling heterogeneous access across different technologies. The basic need to 'connect to unconnected' still remains.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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People never believe you.
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
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Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Doesn't everyone hate Kristen Stewart?
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I actually had to leave the country for infractions to fall off my record.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.