Simon Le Bon Quotes

It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money.

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• I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Job
  • Nature
  • Man

• In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Desire
  • Church
  • Better

• The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Success
  • Bored

• The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • May
  • Growing
  • Die

• I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Done
  • Progress

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Mankind
  • Lead
  • Microsoft

• It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Mind
  • Parents
  • Crazy

• I received free health care.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Free
  • Health
  • Care

• It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Memory

• Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Question
  • Effect
  • Often

• High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • School
  • American
  • High

• Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Purpose
  • Ideas
  • Down

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Know
  • Ambition

• I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Home
  • Light

• I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.

  

  Betty White
  • Dog
  • Cooking
  • Kitchen

• Oh, Alexander Hamilton fell short of his best self every now and again, and he still managed to do these wonderful things - well, so do I. So what am I capable of?

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.

• The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

  

  Anthony Minghella
  • War
  • Ugly

• Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Money
  • Me

• In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tell

• It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Money
  • Fake