David Simon Quotes
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
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On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
