Simon Spurr
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The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to... SIMON SPURR Everyone that knows me already know that I rarely stray from my black jeans, black T-shirt and a bla... SIMON SPURR I'm lucky that I'm inside the fashion industry and see clothes from a different perspective ... SIMON SPURR The biggest criticism would be buying clothes that are too big or trying too hard. I tend to like th... SIMON SPURR The biggest thing I'm seeing - and I have to be careful what I say here - is that people are tir... SIMON SPURR SIMON SINEK Always the journey, never the destination. 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 SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would hav... SIMON COWELL SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK 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 SIMON SINEK 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 SINEK 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 SIMON SINEK 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 SIMON SINEK 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 SIMON SINEK For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom ... SIMON COWELL 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 SINEK SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SCHAMA SIMON NEWCOMB SIMON SINEK CARLY SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SINEK 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 HERBERT SIMON JOHN SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON PAUL SIMON SIMON SINEK SIMON NEWCOMB SIMON KUZNETS SIMON NEWCOMB If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. SIMON COWELL My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face. SIMON COWELL When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables... SIMON COWELL I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g... SIMON COWELL My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.' SIMON COWELL I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical,... SIMON COWELL The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed a... SIMON COWELL I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. SIMON COWELL I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do i... SIMON COWELL You are a saucy little thing aren't you? SIMON COWELL Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. SIMON COWELL I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of,... SIMON COWELL The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love. SIMON COWELL I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can&#... SIMON COWELL I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly... SIMON COWELL You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. SIMON COWELL Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people. SIMON COWELL You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much. SIMON COWELL Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator. SIMON COWELL I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looki... SIMON COWELL People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love. SIMON COWELL SIMON SINEK SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery... SIMON MCBURNEY SIMON KUZNETS SIMON KUZNETS SIMON KUZNETS SIMON KUZNETS
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Mother Superior jump the gun...
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Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i... 
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fib... 
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Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, t... 
The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communic... 
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I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in... 
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Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well. 
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It is a lie. 
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[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuis... 
Better your room than your company. 
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. 
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