Simon Weston Quotes

#1. When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

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#2. I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.

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#3. After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo.

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#4. If I'm out shopping and someone talks to me, I get startled, as I'm not a natural celebrity.

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#5. I've always been very hopeful but I also know that as long as you've got a good work ethic, almost anything is achievable and I learned that in the armed forces.

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#6. It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.

Jay Leno

#7. All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

James Madison

#8. I've had well-paid jobs, but in comparison to what footballers earn, I've not earned serious money.

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#9. We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Dick Durbin

#10. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

Chris Hedges

#12. When I get angry, I start thinking about the people involved and they don't deserve my time.

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#13. True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

Helen Rowland

#14. I prefer cash but so many places only take cards these days, it forces you down a line and I don't like that.

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#15. If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.

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#16. there was such a thing as ice-nine. And

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#17. I haven't stopped working hard since I was 15.

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#18. Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people.

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#19. Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.

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#20. Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.

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#21. Neither of us is perfect, which makes us perfect for each other.

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