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.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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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.
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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.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I received free health care.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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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.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
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I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
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I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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Lucky for me I didn’t know. Why lucky for her? Not lucky for the people she was protecting, but lucky for Róża. She didn’t have to choose.
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It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money.
