Simon Toyne
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DONNY OSMOND LAILAH GIFTY AKITA GERALD CHERTAVIAN CRAIG GROESCHEL There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incred... JOHN SIMM KEITH SWEAT Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, so... MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY DEYTH BANGER QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN BURNING SPEAR MIKE DITKA But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That'... AL LEWIS And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different worl... ALEX PETTYFER EMINEM RICHARD DAWKINS Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll ... HUGH GRANT The biggest neurological turn-on for people is other people. This is what really excites us. In rewa... TOM CHATFIELD AARON STANFORD ANSEL ELGORT MARC JACOBS JOSS WHEDON It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film... ANN DOWD When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had h... BART STUPAK CHUCK SCHUMER KRISTIN ARMSTRONG TIM TEBOW JOE BARTON I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d... DAVE ATTELL What's interesting about Lego is it's constantly reminding you that it's a facsimile of ... CHRISTOPHER MILLER CARLY SCHROEDER KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. T... TRISH STRATUS I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ... CARLY POPE Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also t... BILL WALTON ELLEN DEGENERES JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD VAL KILMER MITCH ALBOM GUY FINLEY ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH CHRISTOPHER GUEST KEVIN BACON I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, ... DIZZY GILLESPIE But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you r... FELICITY JONES XAVIER DOLAN MARLA GIBBS That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us l... BARTLETT SHER AVA DUVERNAY So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It'... CHRIS CARTER When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap pro... MACEO PARKER HILL HARPER CRAIG GROESCHEL That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ... MIKE D Going to grocery stores is almost my favorite thing to do to calm myself down. There's something... SHANE CARRUTH All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to ... GRAHAM NORTON GAYLE FORMAN SAM SMITH There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us. PATRICK SWAYZE DARREN ARONOFSKY LOUIS C. K. All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never ... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO PATTY JENKINS I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It'... JOHN CHO That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a sin... CHARLIE HUNTER 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON KIRK CAMERON LIAM PAYNE An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, s... DANNY AIELLO BRENE BROWN DOUGLAS ADAMS TOM FORD BRUCE LIPTON DOROTHY HAMILL The immediacy of the mobile changes it from what we're accustomed to in the personal computing w... VINT CERF CRAIG GROESCHEL JAMES HETFIELD As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be li... ALEXANDER SKARSGARD It's an important tool to focus where we're excavating. It gives us a much bigger perspectiv... SARAH PARCAK DUANE G. CAREY It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pede... SIMON REX RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
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I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have... SIMON TOYNE As a television producer, you do a lot of writing - drafting proposals for pilot shows and other thi... SIMON TOYNE We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multin... SIMON TOYNE My family and I live in a wing of a Georgian mansion in East Sussex, which was built in the 1780s an... SIMON TOYNE I love researching all sorts of weird stuff. I always say, 'God help me if the FBI came across m... SIMON TOYNE I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western - the drifter who... SIMON TOYNE If you look at the great Westerns, and at Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology, they all contain elemen... SIMON TOYNE Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,&#... SIMON TOYNE 'Solomon Creed' is a man who knows everything about everything but nothing about himself and... SIMON TOYNE Quest stories are about the oldest form of narrative there is, and they're also the perfect meta... SIMON TOYNE I'm certainly not the first author to tiptoe into the conspiratorial, religious-tinged territory... SIMON TOYNE 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 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 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
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what'... 
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In the beginning the Universe was created.
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What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in ... 
The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytellin... 
What we do is ridiculous! I think that even when what I'm doing is serious, even when I'm no... 
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. 
It's not always the case that doing what's right is also doing what's smart, but when it... 
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing... 
Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way".
We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it dimini... 
Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like some... 
So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something... 
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. 
From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do ... 
Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us... 
I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. ... 
It's a magpie aesthetic: If something is hideous, that's interesting. It's kind of the s... 
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the ... 
When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,'... 
Sometimes when we have so much going on, it's easy to forsake the things that seem like personal... 
I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themse... 
Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's ho... 
I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I thin... 
We should celebrate how amazing our bodies are! We all have things that we like and dislike about ou... 
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All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
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I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength ... 
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Kompjuter je samom sebi zbrinuto zaćeretao primijetivši da se jedna zračna komora otvorila i zati... 
I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us. 
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I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you. 
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Oga. Watu hawaogi ndiyo maana wachafu. Kuoga ni lazima kutumia maji. Ukitaka kuoga neno, tumia maji;... 
There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhe... 
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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. 
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Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted: 
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It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuis... 
Better your room than your company. 
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. 
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