Simon Le Bon Quotes
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where I stand on specific issues. I think Millennials are much less interested in conventional labels. One thing that's universal among Millennials is a distinct frustration with Washington, D.C.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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It's the best thing that's happened for many years. I was a young man the last time we won the Ashes. When English sport is good, the country feels good.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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You've got to make sure that you make the best of the day that you're in.
