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 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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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 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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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.
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Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.
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All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
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You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident.
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I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore.
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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.
