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.
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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.'
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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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.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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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.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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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.
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I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.
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New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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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.
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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.
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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.
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Most everybody's got seed to sowIt ain't always easy for a weed to grow, oh no.So he don't hoe the row for no one.Oh for sure he's always missing.And something is never quite right.Ah, but who would want to listen to youKissing his existence good night.
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I think I'm really obsessed with characters that lose their face, in a way. I think it's very moving.
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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.
