Simon Bird (Simon Antony Bird) Quotes
People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.
Simon Bird
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
Olivia Culpo
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
Candice Bergen
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
Pamela Adlon
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Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.
Kapil Sibal
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Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce
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Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.
Douglas Rushkoff
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I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.
Christian Louboutin
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Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
Dieter Rams
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Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
David Hilbert
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Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
Edward Norton
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus
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If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.
Laura Dern
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The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.
Dave Eggers
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People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.
Simon Bird
