John Simon Quotes
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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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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I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.
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Πολλῷ γ' ἀμείνων τοὺς πέλας φρενοῦν ἔφυςἢ σαυτόν. ἔργῳ κοὐ λόγῳ τεκμαίρομαι.
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What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
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The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.
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Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
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Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
