Simon Le Bon Quotes

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

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• I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • American
  • Woman

• Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Space
  • Confidence
  • Problems

• It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Success
  • Going

• I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Different
  • Song
  • Better

• I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Real
  • Think
  • Day

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Good
  • Home
  • Change

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • Law
  • Best

• After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Children
  • Career
  • Small

• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Man
  • Living

• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Mind
  • Playing

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Politics

• It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Education
  • Duty

• I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

  

  Chuck Yeager
  • Fear
  • Dying
  • Flying

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire, And neuer shall I to like riches aspire.

  

  John Heywood
  • Fire
  • Farewell

• I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When I'm in the gym or running alone, there's always music. If I'm in the weights gym, I usually go for rap or rock music; for running, it's dance or cheesy pop.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Work
  • Music
  • Heart

• There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

  

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas
  • World
  • Earth
  • Unique

• We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Band
  • Dance