David Simon Quotes
There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.
Quotes to Explore
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I wish I sang better.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.
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What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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In the current debate about immigration, it is worth noting that this award is yet another example of the numerous contributions that immigrants make to British society.
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Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.
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Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.
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If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.
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There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.
