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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
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In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
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Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.
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Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.
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I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.
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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
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I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
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We have a new team ready to go in to City Hall. Where there have been mistakes we will rectify them. Where there are achievements we will build on them.
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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.
