Simon Sinek
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KRISTI YAMAGUCHI ZENDAYA When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hy... DAN O'BRIEN There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my... WHITNEY CUMMINGS KAREN ARMSTRONG GEORGE LOPEZ I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest. THOMAS KELLER ALANA STEWART I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated bec... RANDY HARRISON The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why ... LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM JACQUELINE BISSET BETSEY JOHNSON CHRISTINE MCVIE BARBARA CORCORAN LINDA RONSTADT JODIE FOSTER I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that... DANNY DYER I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it. TAMER HASSAN MEGHAN MARKLE I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research uni... NANCY ROMAN I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic wa... CHARLIE HADEN NADIA COMANECI CARROLL SHELBY RALPH LAUREN SAMMY HAGAR I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reas... DAVE FINKEL My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because whe... ELIZA COUPE DAVID SOUL I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would wri... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL PRINCE I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job ... TAYLOR SHERIDAN TERRY BRADSHAW LES CLAYPOOL VERONICA ROTH KENDALL JENNER CHRIS EVANS I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because alt... JANE RULE NATASHA TRETHEWEY I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrasse... LAURA TROTT When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. T... JOHN LURIE I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend wh... AMBER RILEY But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, wha... DABNEY COLEMAN I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting bec... LIANNE LA HAVAS I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care... DOUG COLLINS For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made... MICHAEL GRAVES I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it. JACKIE DESHANNON The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middl... BEN SHAHN A couple of years ago, right before I made 'Down to You,' there was a moment when I question... FREDDIE PRINZE, JR. KEVIN HART I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantas... CARRIE VAUGHN JACK GILBERT I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and me... KATHERINE HEIGL When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I ... PAUL SORVINO BONNIE RAITT I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it wa... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS BEVERLY SILLS When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frank... BEN CHANDLER There probably wasn't a day that went by in high school that I wasn't bullied either physica... JEREMY SCOTT ESAI MORALES GRIZZ CHAPMAN I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I s... JOHNNY RAMONE When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much ... KATEY SAGAL All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be... LIL' KIM CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE When Obamacare actually kicked in, just as we knew, if you liked your insurance, as I did - I had a ... LOUIE GOHMERT I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weigh... COCO AUSTIN I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't sh... FRANCES FARMER I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve. BARRY STERNLICHT CHER HUGH JACKMAN I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a... SOPHIE MONK JOHN TRUDELL It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to t... ERIC MASKIN Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure ... BILL SKARSGARD I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they sa... PAUL KANE EDDIE GUERRERO In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of... ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL JAMES CALLIS When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, whi... SCOTT MICHAEL FOSTER
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SIMON RATTLE The majority of my work is about preparation. TARYN SIMON I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles intere... TARYN SIMON My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support. TARYN SIMON In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered ... TARYN SIMON I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answe... TARYN SIMON With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a... SAM SIMON I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think. SAM SIMON I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do t... SAM SIMON 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thoug... SAM SIMON I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work. SAM SIMON One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, ... SAM SIMON The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken ... SAM SIMON Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with. SAM SIMON I don't believe in miracles. SAM SIMON I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their We... SAM SIMON A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl.... SAM SIMON I want to do whatever I can to survive. SAM SIMON I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begr... SAM SIMON Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate chang... SAM SIMON The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun... SAM SIMON There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bi... SAM SIMON When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use. SAM SIMON Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan. SAM SIMON Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim... SAM SIMON If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would hav... SIMON COWELL SIMON HOGGART Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young. SIMON RATTLE SIMON HOGGART He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have sai... SIMON CALLOW HERBERT SIMON SIMON MAINWARING I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand. SIMON REUBEN I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of read... MARGE SIMON SIMON HOGGART SIMON HOGGART SIMON MAINWARING Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever w... SIMON COWELL What do we do after? Build a transfer station? Direct haul? And what will the form be? Contract with... ALAN SIMON If we fill to capacity we don't have to do a tax or bond to cover the rest. ALAN SIMON We're taking in less [household] trash and have more capacity. And capacity equals money. ALAN SIMON It's pretty much a lull in the action. We're looking forward to the next few years. ALAN SIMON SIMON MAINWARING If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then t... SIMON RATTLE As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywoo... SIMON BEAUFOY Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big tro... SIMON COWELL Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. SIMON TRAVAGLIA I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - i... SIMON COWELL I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual ... SIMON COWELL I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I sho... SIMON BIRD SIMON HOGGART SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING The golden age is before us, not behind us. ST. SIMON NEIL SIMON Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow. SIMON DACH There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it... SIMON GREENLEAF In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our reli... SIMON GREENLEAF SIMON MORDEN SIMON MASHALLA TED SIMON SIMON HOGGART NEIL SIMON SIMON HOGGART TED SIMON JOHN SIMON PAUL SIMON SIMON SCHAMA JOHN SIMON HERBERT SIMON SIMON WIESENTHAL NEIL SIMON SIMON FORMAN SIMON FORMAN ELLEN SIMON Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while... SIMON FOWLER PAUL SIMON SIMON CAMERON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING DAVID SIMON SIMON HOGGART DAVID SIMON DAVID SIMON HERBERT SIMON For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom ... SIMON COWELL The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to... SIMON SPURR It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pede... SIMON REX American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. SIMON PEGG There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't ev... SIMON PEGG SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SCHAMA SIMON NEWCOMB CARLY SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON HELBERG SIMON NEWCOMB CARLY SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING
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Oga. Watu hawaogi ndiyo maana wachafu. Kuoga ni lazima kutumia maji. Ukitaka kuoga neno, tumia maji;... 
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