William E. Simon Quotes
Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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My work... is my legacy.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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It is important, therefore, to understand at the outset the simplicity of this book - what it can accomplish and what it cannot. What it does try to do is to isolate certain psychological factors and to demonstrate rigorously by quantitative scientific methods that these factors are generally important in economic development.
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In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
