Simon Van Booy Quotes
Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
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My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'
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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
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(Talking about American and British Language) You say 'erbs and we say herbs, because there's a fucking 'H' in it.
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Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'
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People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.
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I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.
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Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
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Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
