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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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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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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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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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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An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
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I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.
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The real food is not being advertised.
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Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.
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I've always been a Marvel fan. As a kid, I would pick up a two-foot stack of comics and read them in the back of my dad's car on long journeys across the States. That's how I used to make friends - I'd meet up with other kids, and we'd swap comics.
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Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
