"On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back."

-- Simon Cowell

#Dad Quotes #Business Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.”
“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”
“The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.”
“I love the fact that we've made a film that not only the whole family can go to and enjoy but, you know, it's actually having an effect. You know, Rey's character is a tough woman who your 6-year-old can pick up a lightsaber now and go for it.”
“Thatâ€™s the really annoying thing about love. I probably would be happier if I didnâ€™t know it, but once you do know it, once you feel those things for someone, you canâ€™t make yourself really wish it away. Itâ€™s like wishing away . . . your soul. - Jenny”
“We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.”
“I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. Itâ€™s not something to be approached casually.”
“I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.”

Source : John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.9, Vintage

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