Sam Simon Quotes
One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
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I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.
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Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.
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One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
