John Simon Quotes

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

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• As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • People
  • More
  • Less

• People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Willing
  • Wiser

• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Bored

• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Man
  • Hell

• I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • People
  • Stand
  • View

• I've lived most people's dream by playing football.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • People
  • Dream
  • Football

• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Small
  • Day

• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Success
  • Wine

• Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • United States
  • Tiger

• By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Great
  • Matter

• All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back.

  

  James Lecesne
  • People
  • Identity

• I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Popular

• I can't remember how old I was, maybe 13, 14, and to see these fellows and hear their stories and to see life come to such a drab ending - my God, a poorhouse in those days was something. You would have to be inert not to respond to it.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Life
  • God
  • Remember

• Margaret Sanger: On the contrary, it seems to me that it is more practical and Humane.

  

  Margaret Sanger

• People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

  

  John Simon
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