Simon Le Bon Quotes

You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

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• So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Words

• I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Body

• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Just
  • Enlightenment

• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Change
  • Ignorance

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Word
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• It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Know
  • Law
  • Last

• Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Society
  • Old
  • Retire

• I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Blue

• Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Lives

• If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • People
  • Past
  • Learning

• New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Born
  • New
  • Lived

• God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Audience
  • Laugh

• I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • More
  • Clothes
  • Without

• I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Good
  • Law
  • Purpose

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Football

• To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Ambition

• I think the goal is to win everything. Whatever we can reach is nice to take.

  

  Kevin De Bruyne
  • Goal
  • Everything
  • Reach

• I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Kind
  • Goal
  • Ambition