John Simon Quotes
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
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I have studied at the school of the world.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
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I love 'Glee.'
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.
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My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.
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The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first 'adult novel,' Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'The Blue Castle.'
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Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June - a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet.
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It was weird at first but then it was kind of fun. I was just laughing and cracking jokes, being a cheerleader.
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Actually, we didn't tour that much back in the 70s because we had all these other artists under our hat. My touring was really limited. I tour more now than I did back then.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
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Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
