Bob Simon Quotes
The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
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I'm a nerdy, geeky fan of' Labyrinth' and 'Dark Crystal'.
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I thought I was going to be in musical theater all the way, from beginning to end, and then it started not to feel right after my first year at conservatory.
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Building an empire...one letter in front of the other.
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The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.
