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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You're going to spend a long time with the stuff you work on; you might as well like it.
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You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.
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A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.
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You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
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The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.
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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.
