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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Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.
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If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
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The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
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You've got to make sure that you make the best of the day that you're in.
